Mississippi Floods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mississippi Floods write by Anuradha Mathur. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Mississippi Floods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?" "The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape. Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Rising Tide
Rising Tide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rising Tide write by John M. Barry. This book was released on 1997. Rising Tide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America.
Deep'n as it Come
Deep'n as it Come - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deep'n as it Come write by Pete Daniel. This book was released on 1977-01-01. Deep'n as it Come available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River's devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors, official reports, and over 140 contemporary photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered most from the effects of the flood emerges alongside the details of the massive rescue and relief operation - one of the largest ever mounted in the United States. The title, Deep'n as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbell's earthy description of the approaching water, which, Daniel writes, "moved at a pace of some fourteen miles per day," and, in its movement and sound, "had the eeriness of a full eclipse of the sun, unsettling, chilling." "The contradictions of sorrow and humor,... death and salvation, despair and hope, calm and panic - all reveal the human dimension" in this compassionate and unforgettable portrait of common people confronting a great natural disaster.
Flood
Flood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flood write by Kathleen Duey. This book was released on 2015-03-24. Flood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the raging Mississippi threatens their secret cache of hard-earned nickels and pennies, Molly and her white friend Garrett risk their lives to retrieve the money.
Flood Control on the Mississippi River
Flood Control on the Mississippi River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flood Control on the Mississippi River write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control. This book was released on 1930. Flood Control on the Mississippi River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
