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Book Synopsis Mississippi Swamp by : John W. Hatch
Download or read book Mississippi Swamp written by John W. Hatch and published by Secondsightbooks.Com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Rose and Cicero learning to survive, falling in love in a grim time and refusing to become victims of the free enterprise spin put on freedom following the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Shadow and Shelter by : Anthony Wilson
Download or read book Shadow and Shelter written by Anthony Wilson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy—African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites—the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture. Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture explores the interplay of contradictory but equally prevailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the underside of the myth of pastoral Eden that defined the antebellum South; and second, the swamp as the last pure vestige of undominated southern ecoculture. As the South gives in to strip malls and suburban sprawl, its wooded wetlands have come to embody the last part of the region that will always be beyond cultural domination. Examining the southern swamp from a perspective informed by ecocriticism, literary studies, and ecological history, Shadow and Shelter considers the many representations of the swamp and its evolving role in an increasingly multicultural South.
Download or read book Swamp Rat written by Theodore G. Manno and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands along the Gulf Coast. In this definitive book on “swamp rats,” Manno vividly recounts western expansion and the explosion of the American fur industry. Then he details an apocalyptic turn—to replace an overhunted beaver population in North America, humans introduced nutria. With an eclectic repertoire of true stories that read like fiction and are played out by larger-than-life characters, Manno conveys the legend of empire-seeking fur trappers, the bizarre miscommunications that led to nutria releases, and the sadness that comes with killing millions of nutria whose ancestors were never meant to leave their South American habitat. He tells of disastrous interactions among hungry nutria, storm surges from Hurricane Katrina, and major oil spills. His extensively researched and epic narrative, accompanied by more than thirty photographs and entertaining interviews with biologists, historians, fashion designers, and chefs, weaves a poignant tale of empire, conquest, fortune, and even Tabasco Sauce. Manno provides a full overview of what is currently known about nutria—a species now aggressively hunted with a bounty program because of their reputation for wetland destruction.
Download or read book Watershed written by Davy Murrah and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, the river has been left to rise and fall naturally with the seasons, overflowing annually into the adjoining bottomland forest. This phenomenon makes the Pascagoula River one of the wildest rivers, surrounded by some of the most ecologically diverse woodlands, in North America. Herman Murrah (1935–2002) lived his entire life on the banks and in the swamp surrounding this river in southeast Mississippi. Watershed: Herman Murrah and the Pascagoula River Swamp recounts pivotal moments in Herman’s life and in Mississippi’s conservation history more broadly. In this book, Herman’s eldest son, Davy, details the adventures that continue to inspire young conservationists in the fight to protect our remaining natural ecosystems. As a young adult, Herman worked as a game warden in the Pascagoula River Swamp. When the Pascagoula Hardwood Company, then owners of the swamp, decided to sell the vast tract of forest for clearcutting, Herman was incensed. Determined to protect this natural wonder, Herman teamed up with other visionaries to persuade the State of Mississippi to purchase the land and preserve it in perpetuity to the benefit of future generations of humans and wildlife alike. Eventually, the state agreed and finalized the purchase. Herman was appointed area manager for the upper portion of the newly designated Pascagoula River Wildlife Management Area. He dedicated the remainder of his life to preserving, protecting, and improving the swamp for the good of south Mississippi.
Book Synopsis Water and Habitat Dynamics of the Mingo Swamp in Southeastern Missouri by : Mickey E. Heitmeyer
Download or read book Water and Habitat Dynamics of the Mingo Swamp in Southeastern Missouri written by Mickey E. Heitmeyer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Drainage of Swamps in the Lower Delta of the Mississippi River by : Joseph Gardner Bennett
Download or read book The Drainage of Swamps in the Lower Delta of the Mississippi River written by Joseph Gardner Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thunder Across the Swamp by : Donald Shaw Frazier
Download or read book Thunder Across the Swamp written by Donald Shaw Frazier and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald S. Frazier, author of the award-winning Fire in the Cane Field, expands up his Louisiana Quadrille with the release of book two, Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February-May 1863. The better known stories of the campaigns for Vicksburg and Port Hudson grow richer and more nuanced by taking a look at the fighting west of the river as part of a larger picture.
Book Synopsis Music of the Swamp by : Lewis Nordan
Download or read book Music of the Swamp written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1992-01-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —Southern Living Lewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin’s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: “The Delta is filled up with death”; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. An ALA Notable Book Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award
Book Synopsis Mississippi Floods by : Anuradha Mathur
Download or read book Mississippi Floods written by Anuradha Mathur and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?" "The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape. Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Swamp Souths written by Kirstin L. Squint and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical introduction and afterword, Swamp Souths introduces new frameworks for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with an emphasis on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime. The volume analyzes canonical writers such as William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty, but it also investigates contemporary literary works by Randall Kenan and Karen Russell, the films Beasts of the Southern Wild and My Louisiana Love, and music ranging from swamp rock and zydeco to Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade. Navigating a complex assemblage of places and ecosystems, the contributors argue with passion and critical rigor for considering anew the literary and cultural work that swamps do. This dynamic collection of scholarship proves that swampy approaches to southern spaces possess increased relevance in an era of climate change and political crisis.
Book Synopsis The Bluffs of Devil's Swamp by : Mack Cameron
Download or read book The Bluffs of Devil's Swamp written by Mack Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mississippi River Reintroduction Into Maurepas Swamp Project PO-29 by :
Download or read book Mississippi River Reintroduction Into Maurepas Swamp Project PO-29 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swamp Man written by Donald Goines and published by Holloway House Publishing. This book was released on 1974 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special preview of Kenyatta's last hit.
Book Synopsis Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians by : Reuben Davis
Download or read book Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians written by Reuben Davis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Swamp and Overflowed Lands in Newton County, Mississippi by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Swamp and Overflowed Lands in Newton County, Mississippi written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Old-Time River Rats by : Kenny Salwey
Download or read book The Old-Time River Rats written by Kenny Salwey and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful characters once populated the Upper Mississippi River Valley swamps and floodplain forests. These are the river rats, hill folk, and swamp dogs whose stories Kenny Salwey tells so well. Now long gone, these legendary denizens of the river bottoms come alive in Kenny’s signature brand of storytelling, rife with insight and laughter, woodslore and a time-tested philosophy of the natural world. With a foreword by regional historian Gary Schlosstein, this deep delving into the old-time community of the Mississippi River presents a rich picture of a life as fascinating as it is fast-disappearing in our fast-paced, high-tech world.
Book Synopsis Music of the Swamp by : Lewis Nordan
Download or read book Music of the Swamp written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar, a little boy growing up in the 1950s, encounters death in its many forms as he discovers a dead man in the swamp, digs up a dead woman from under the house, and sits on a dead druggist in the drugstore
