The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
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Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atlantic" (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis's The Gulf is "by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of 'America's Sea' " (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America's political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf's fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood's role in the country's first offshore oil wells, this "vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a 'national sacrifice zone' " (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers "a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written" (Edward O. Wilson).
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1631494023
ISBN13:9781631494024
Release Date:March 2018
Publisher:Liveright Publishing Corporation
Length:608 Pages
Weight:1.14 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"
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Fascinating Biography of the Gulf of Mexico
Published by Laura Jane Sanderson Healy , 9 months ago
The Gulf of Mexico holds particular magic for me because I attended a nursery school right on the sands of St. Pete Beach when I was four years old. We learned how to identify seabirds and seashells and studied the sky and the surf when not learning poetry. So many generations of fish, animals, plants, amphibians and humans have thrived in and around this gigantic body of water and University of Florida professor Jack E. Davis tells their riveting stories. America’s sea became a magnet for its own destruction by of wasteful human activity and ecological terror, from the near-extinction of bird life for the making of hats to the cataclysmic Deep Horizon oilspill disaster. Great book to have, to give and to read and re-read.
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