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New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. First Paperback Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. A Very Good or better copy of this photo-illustrated paperback. Light tanning at the top edge of the text block, clean/unmarked within, with little cover wear. (Not ex-library.)
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The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina Paperback - 2017
by Christopher Morris
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- Title The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina
- Author Christopher Morris
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Date 2017-01-01
- ISBN 9780190610760 / 019061076X
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Mississippi River Basin
- Cultural Region: South
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Studies
- Topical: Ecology
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.209
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Paperback / softback. New. 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 the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has changed, for the river and for the surrounding valley. Indeed, by the 1890s, the valley was rapidly drying. Morris shows how centuries of increasingly intensified human meddling-including deforestation, swamp drainage, and levee construction-led to drought, disease, and severe flooding. He outlines the damage done by the introduction of foreign species, such as the Argentine nutria, which escaped…
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