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Mississippi River - Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf (Hardcover)
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Mississippi River - Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf (Hardcover)
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America's most important and iconic river has many familiar names:
The Mighty Mississippi, Old Blue, and Ole Man River. In Mississippi
River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf, the third book
of his trilogy on North American Waters, David Freese takes us on a
captivating visual journey from its source at Lake Itasca in
Minnesota 2,552 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico. Freese's
photographs open our eyes to encompass a wide diversity of industry
and farmland, cities and towns, landscapes and wildlife, all the
while revealing the constant flow of goods, grain, and fuel, up and
down the country's major shipping artery. The photographs
illustrate the ongoing dangers posed by increased flooding and the
protective measures taken by the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers to
try and keep a restless river in check. There are environmental
concerns, ranging from habitat loss to agricultural and pesticide
runoff, and the legacy of slavery and the removal of native peoples
persist. It's a river that reveals a complicated past, present, and
future as humankind attempts to control nature. American history
bends and turns in its waters. The noted author Simon Winchester
has written an arresting essay that provides one of the most
compelling descriptions and histories yet written about a river
that is so much more than a familiar name. The foreword by Sarah
Kennel, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in
Atlanta, places Freese's images into the canon of landscape
photography as a magnificent body of work that documents,
critiques, honors, and sanctifies America's most treasured river.
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