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Jack E. Davis

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

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When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its special kind of providence. Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea-bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience-and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the twenty-first century.Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hu… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-87140-866-2
  • EAN: 9780871408662
  • Produktnummer: 20006383
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 448 S.
  • Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.7 cm x D3.9 cm 999 g
  • Gewicht: 999

Über den Autor


Jack E. Davis is the author of the award-winning An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. A professor of environmental history at the University of Florida, he grew up on the Gulf coast, and now lives in Florida and New Hampshire.

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