Mockingbird Song - Ecological Landscapes of the South (Paperback, New edition)

This title discusses about Southerners and their habitat.The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With ""Mockingbird Song"", Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. Exhibiting violent cycles of growth, abandonment, dereliction, resettlement, and reconfiguration, this relationship, Kirby suggests, has the sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous vocalizations of the region's emblematic avian, the mockingbird.In a narrative voice marked by the intimacy and enthusiasm of a storyteller, Kirby explores all of the South's peoples and their landscapes - how humans have used, yielded, or manipulated varying environments and how they have treated forests, water, and animals. Citing history, literature, and cinematic portrayals along the way, Kirby also relates how southerners have thought about their part of Earth - as a source of both sustenance and delight.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Jack Temple Kirby
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-5922-3
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-8078-5922-2
Barcode:	9780807859223

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