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Chargement... Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterwayspar Tyler J. Kelley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Modern Day Life On The Mississippi. This book frequently references Twain's famous work Life On The Mississippi and essentially constitutes a modern retelling of this text, focusing on the more modern issues and problems of trying to "manage" one of nature's untamable forces. Rather than a dense scientific tome, Kelley instead focuses on the people involved and their specific issues, expanding through time and geography as and where needed to show how the issue at this time and place came to be. Ultimately many of his recommendations are more of the "your mileage may vary" level, but the work he does in establishing the people he speaks of in their times and places is truly breathtaking and will make you want to go back and read Twain's own works to see just how much of life on the Mississippi has changed - and remained constant - over the last 150 or so years. Very much recommended. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A deeply human exploration of how our centuries-long dream of conquering and shaping this vast network of waterways squares with the reality of an indomitable natural world. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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