| Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama Contributor(s): Jackson, Harvey H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817307710 ISBN-13: 9780817307714 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1995 Annotation: 'Jackson weaves a fascinating story a amazing variety of sources, primary, secondary, oral histories, and personal observations. This book is entertaining, informative, poignant and finally, to me, profoundly sad. The fact that{these rivers} now are 'elongated lakes' with little if any of a once-abundant biota should be a constant reminder to all of the price we have paid for 'civilization.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Rivers |
| Dewey: 976.15 |
| LCCN: 94-32334 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.12" W x 9.26" (1.11 lbs) 316 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Alabama |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study reviews how the four streams of the Alabama River system - which flow for more than 900 miles through the state - have shaped the lives of those living along their banks, and how people have used them. The Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba and Alabama are now both harnessed and polluted. |