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Hardcover The Place with No Edge: An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta Book
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ISBN: 0807172839

ISBN13: 9780807172834

The Place with No Edge: An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta

(Part of the The Natural World of the Gulf South Series)

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In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with--rather than independence from--the environment.

Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi...

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