Title:
The great river : the making and unmaking of the Mississippi / Boyce Upholt.
ISBN:
9780393867879
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
©2024
Physical Description:
330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction: A most magnificent spectacle -- Part I: Alluvial chronicles. Searching for a river -- Tomahawk claims -- Cosmic river -- Part II: American river. Half horse, half alligator -- The Office of River Improvement -- Dancing at the skirts of Congress -- That big green wall -- The great flood -- Part III: The unmade Mississippi. Hooked up, hard down -- Death alley -- The great unraveling -- Beautiful country -- Epilogue: The water of the future.
Summary:
In this landmark work of natural history, a journalist tells the epic story of the Mississippi River and the centuries of efforts to control it, which have damaged its once-vibrant ecosystems, carrying readers along the river's last remaining backchannels and exploring how scientists hope to restore what has been lost.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1436038757
Availability:
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