The Mobile River: With a New Preface - Couverture souple

Sledge, John S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1643365274 ISBN 13 : 9781643365275

Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association

In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal experiences for a rich and rewarding read. Illustrated with more than sixty color and black-and-white images, The Mobile River beautifully communicates a strong sense of place.

Beginning at Nannahubba, where the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers meet, the Mobile River serves as the outlet for the sixth largest river basin in the United States and the largest one emptying into the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi. Sledge takes readers on a journey through history framed and sometimes directed by this expansive watershed. A tale spanning colonial forts, international treaties, and thundering naval battles, and populated by characters, including Indian warriors, European diplomats, cartographers, enslaved Africans, Civil War generals, hydraulic engineers, and "Rosie the Riveter" women workers, The Mobile River presents a pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity. In a new preface, Sledge addresses the 2018 discovery of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John S. Sledge is maritime historian in residence for the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico. He is the author of eight books, including The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1643365274
• ISBN 13: 9781643365275
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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