The Mobile River

With a New Preface

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Beschreibung

<b>Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association </b><p>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, <i>The Mobile River</i> beautifully communicates a strong sense of place.</p><p>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, <i>The Mobile River</i> 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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781643365275

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

252 x 177 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

University of South Carolina Press