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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Publication date
June 16, 2015
Pages
335
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611174854
ISBN-10
1611174856
Dimensions
1 by 7 by 10 in.
Weight
2.12 lbs.
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
university press
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Gone to the Swamp | Remembering Mobile | Mobile And the Eastern Shore | Settlement | Alabama Footprints Exploration | Terror at Bottle Creek | Among the Swamp People | The Majesty of Mobile | Why We Are Here
Gone to the Swamp | Remembering Mobile | Mobile And the Eastern Shore | Settlement | Alabama Footprints Exploration | Terror at Bottle Creek | Among the Swamp People | The Majesty of Mobile | Why We Are Here
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse. Inspired by the venerable Rivers of America series, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements with personal experiences and more than sixty color and black-and-white images for a rich and rewarding read.
The Mobile River appears on the map full and wide at Nannahubba, fifty miles from the coast, where the Alabama and the Tombigbee rivers meet, but because it empties their waters into Mobile Bay and subsequently the Gulf of Mexico, it usurps them and their multitudinous tributaries. If all of the rivers, creeks, streams, bayous, bogues, branches, swamps, sloughs, rivulets, and trickles that ultimately pour into Mobile Bay are factored into the equation, the Mobile assumes awesome importance and becomes the outlet for the sixth largest river basin in the United States and the largest emptying into the Gulf east of the Mississippi River.
Previous historians have paid copious attention to the other rivers that make up the Mobile's basin, but the namesake stream along with its majestic delta and beautiful bay have been strangely neglected. In an attempt to redress the imbalance, Sledge launches this book with a first-person river tour by "haul-ass boat." Along the way he highlights the four diverse personalities of this short stream--upland hardwood forest, upper swamp, lower swamp, and harbor.
In the historical saga that follows, readers learn about colonial forts, international treaties, bloody massacres, and thundering naval battles, as well as what the Mobile River's inhabitants ate and how they dressed through time. A barge load of colorful characters is introduced, including Indian warriors, French diplomats, British cartographers, Spanish tavern keepers, Creole women, steamboat captains, African slaves, Civil War generals and admirals, Apache prisoners, hydraulic engineers, stevedores, banana importers, Rosie Riveters, and even a few river rats subsisting off the grid--all of them actors in a uniquely American pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity along a river that gave a city its name.
Also available in a Deluxe Edition with Maps and Slipcase, limited to 150 copies, $100.00, ISBN 9781611174878.
The Mobile River appears on the map full and wide at Nannahubba, fifty miles from the coast, where the Alabama and the Tombigbee rivers meet, but because it empties their waters into Mobile Bay and subsequently the Gulf of Mexico, it usurps them and their multitudinous tributaries. If all of the rivers, creeks, streams, bayous, bogues, branches, swamps, sloughs, rivulets, and trickles that ultimately pour into Mobile Bay are factored into the equation, the Mobile assumes awesome importance and becomes the outlet for the sixth largest river basin in the United States and the largest emptying into the Gulf east of the Mississippi River.
Previous historians have paid copious attention to the other rivers that make up the Mobile's basin, but the namesake stream along with its majestic delta and beautiful bay have been strangely neglected. In an attempt to redress the imbalance, Sledge launches this book with a first-person river tour by "haul-ass boat." Along the way he highlights the four diverse personalities of this short stream--upland hardwood forest, upper swamp, lower swamp, and harbor.
In the historical saga that follows, readers learn about colonial forts, international treaties, bloody massacres, and thundering naval battles, as well as what the Mobile River's inhabitants ate and how they dressed through time. A barge load of colorful characters is introduced, including Indian warriors, French diplomats, British cartographers, Spanish tavern keepers, Creole women, steamboat captains, African slaves, Civil War generals and admirals, Apache prisoners, hydraulic engineers, stevedores, banana importers, Rosie Riveters, and even a few river rats subsisting off the grid--all of them actors in a uniquely American pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity along a river that gave a city its name.
Also available in a Deluxe Edition with Maps and Slipcase, limited to 150 copies, $100.00, ISBN 9781611174878.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of South Carolina Pr (June 16, 2015)
9781611174878 | details & prices | 304 pages | 7.75 × 10.75 × 1.75 in. | 2.88 lbs | List price $100.00
About: The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse.
About: The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Univ of South Carolina Pr (June 16, 2015)
9781611174854 | details & prices | 335 pages | 7.00 × 10.00 × 1.00 in. | 2.12 lbs | List price $34.95
About: The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse.
About: The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse.
Paperback
With Mary Beth Norton |
Brief edition from Houghton Mifflin School (January 1, 1984); titled "A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Since 1865, Volume B"
9780395352359 | details & prices | List price $17.96
This edition also contains A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Since 1865, Volume B
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This edition also contains A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Since 1865, Volume B
About: -
With Mary Beth Norton |
Stg edition from Houghton Mifflin School (January 1, 1984); titled "A People and a Nation"
9780395352366 | details & prices | List price $13.56
This edition also contains A People and a Nation
This edition also contains A People and a Nation
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