Description
This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who want to know more concerning the river’s history and the forces that shape in addition to threaten it as of late. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth’s history.
Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River continuously leaves the primary channel to explore the river’s backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book’s center of attention is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it is usually details about the river’s headwaters in northern Minnesota and concerning the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river’s mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an figuring out of the basic geology underlying the river’s landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.
Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River continuously leaves the primary channel to explore the river’s backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book’s center of attention is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it is usually details about the river’s headwaters in northern Minnesota and concerning the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river’s mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an figuring out of the basic geology underlying the river’s landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.
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