[PDF.33ba] The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina

The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina

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 | #696347 in Books |  2012-08-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.10 x9.20l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Disappointing|By D. Costello|While this book presents some decent history, biology, and hydrology, it is VERY opinionated and Very repetitive. Maybe clearly showing your biases is a good thing, but I like reading something that at least tries to be objective. This book repeats over and over (and over) that "separating water and dry land" in the lower Mississippi basin is a fut| ||"[An] ambitious and cleanly argued environmental history of the lower Mississippi Valley...." --Historian||"The history of the Mississippi valley is the story of a constant tug-of-war between water and land. Morris has aptly told the stories that are

In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society.

Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina   |  Christopher Morris. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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