Jack Temple Kirby

Mockingbird Song

Ecological Landscapes of the South

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The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With Mockingbird Song, Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. Exhibiting violent cycles of growth, abandonment, dereliction, resettlement, and reconfiguration, this relationship, Kirby suggests, has the sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous vocalizations of the region's emblematic avian, the mockingbird.In a narrative voice marked by the intimacy an… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8078-5922-3
EAN: 9780807859223
Produktnummer: 3748398
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 617 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 617

Über den Autor

JACK TEMPLE KIRBY is W.E. Smith Professor Emeritus of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and currently lives on Anastasia Island in Florida. He is author or editor of eight books, including Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 and Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape and Society (from the University of North Carolina Press).