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The Gulf South, an anthology of environmental writing, edited by Tori Bush, Richard Goodman ; foreword by Bill McKibben

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The Gulf South

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edited by Tori Bush, Richard Goodman ; foreword by Bill McKibben

an anthology of environmental writing

"Reaching from Texas to Florida and featuring a diverse array of voices from the past 100 years, this collection of environmental writing about the Gulf South region enriches how we understand the relationship between people and the rapidly changing ecology of the Gulf."--, Provided by publisher

Catherine Cole, "Last Island", Picayune (1888) -- Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889) -- E.L. Corthell, "The Delta of the Mississippi", National Geographic (1897) -- John Muir, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916) -- Jovita González, "El Cenizo," "The Mocking Bird," and "The Guadalupana Vine", Texas and Southwestern Lore (1927) -- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) -- William Faulkner, "Old Man", The Wild Palms (1939) -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling (1938) -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) -- Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers (1974) -- Florida Tribe of Eastern Creek Indians, "Petition for Recognition" (1978) -- Joy Harjo, "New Orleans", She Had Some Horses (1983) -- Eddy Harris, Mississippi Solo (1988) -- John McPhee, "Atchafalaya", The Control of Nature (1989) -- Robert Bullard, "Houston's Northwood Manor Neighborhood," Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality (1990) -- John Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (1997) -- Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (1998) -- Roger Emilie Stouff, "The Back End of the Canal" (2003) -- Mike Tidwell, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (2003) -- Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (2005) -- Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas (2005) -- Michael Grunewald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise (2006) -- Cynthia Barnett, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. (2008) -- Oliver Houck, Down on the Batture (2010) -- Bob Marshall, "A Paradise Lost":Part 3, The Times-Picayune (2010) -- Josh Neufeld, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (2010) -- Natasha Trethewey, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010) -- Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (2011) -- David Gessner, The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill (2011) -- Moira Crone, The Not Yet (2012) -- Kate Galbraith and Asher Price, The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power (2013) -- Peggy Frankland, Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement (2013) -- Richard M. Mizelle Jr., Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination (2014) -- Bob Marshall, "Losing Ground", The Lens, ProPublica (2014) -- Antonia Juhasz, "Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea", Harper's Magazine (2015) -- Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016) -- Neena Satija, "Hell and High Water", The Texas Tribune, Reveal, ProPublica (2016) -- Edward Wilson, Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (2016) -- Justin Nobel, "The Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip", Longreads (2017) -- Jack E. Davis, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (2017) -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Collected Texts in Thematic Order -- Appendix 2: A Very Limited List of Additional Suggested Reading