Jack E. Davis
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
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Winner • Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner • Kirkus Prize for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptainBooklist Editors' Choice (History)Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceIn this cri de coeur about the Gulf's environmental ruin” (New York Times), Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review).Hailed as a nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atla…
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Winner • Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner • Kirkus Prize for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptainBooklist Editors' Choice (History)Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceIn this cri de coeur about the Gulf's environmental ruin” (New York Times), Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review).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).
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-87140-867-9
- EAN: 9780871408679
- Produktnummer: 34248516
- Verlag: Liveright
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 25'147 KB
- Abbildungen: 26 illustrations
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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