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Paperback The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea Book

ISBN: 1631494023

ISBN13: 9781631494024

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

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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...

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Fascinating Biography of the Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico holds particular magic for me because I attended a nursery school right on the sands of St. Pete Beach when I was four years old. We learned how to identify seabirds and seashells and studied the sky and the surf when not learning poetry. So many generations of fish, animals, plants, amphibians and humans have thrived in and around this gigantic body of water and University of Florida professor Jack E. Davis tells their riveting stories. America’s sea became a magnet for its own destruction by of wasteful human activity and ecological terror, from the near-extinction of bird life for the making of hats to the cataclysmic Deep Horizon oilspill disaster. Great book to have, to give and to read and re-read.
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