The Gulf : the making of an American sea

Davis, Jack E., 1956- author.

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Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, t...

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ISBN:

9780871408662

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 592 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Prologue : history, nature, and a forgotten sea
Introduction : birth
Part one. Estuaries, and the lie of the land and sea : aborigines and colonizing Europeans. Mounds
El golfo de México
Unnecessary death
A most important river, and a "magnificent" bay
Part two. Sea and sky : American debuts in the nineteenth century. Manifest destiny
A fishy sea
The wild fish that tamed the coast
Birds of a feather, shot together
Part three. Preludes to the future. From bayside to beachside
Oil and the Texas toe dip
Oil and the Louisiana plunge
Islands, shifting sands of time
Wind and water
Part four. Saturation and loss : post-1945. The growth coast
Florida worry, Texas slurry
Rivers of stuff
Runoff, and runaway
Sand in the hourglass
Losing the edge
Epilogue : a success story amid so much else

LCCN:

2016051692

Control Number:

2377162

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