Mockingbird Song [electronic resource] : Ecological Landscapes of the South.

By:

Kirby, Jack Temple

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)ISBN:

9780807876602 (electronic bk.)
0807876607 (electronic bk.)

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

508.75

LOC classification:

GF504.S6

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Prologue: An Orientation Mostly along St. Johns River; Chapter 1. Original Civilizations; Chapter 2. Plantation Traditions; Chapter 3. Commoners and the Commons; Chapter 4. Matanzas and Mastery; Chapter 5. Enchantment and Equilibrium; Chapter 6. Cities of Clay; Epilogue: Postmodern Landscapes; Notes; Index.

Summary: Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. In a narrative voice marked by the intimacy and enthusiasm of a storyteller, Kirby explores all of the South's peoples and their landscapeshow humans have used, yielded, or manipulated varying environments and how they have treated forests, water, and animals. Citing history, literature, and cinematic portrayals along the way, Kirby also relates how southerners have thought about their part of Earthas a source of both sustenance and delight.

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Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. In a narrative voice marked by the intimacy and enthusiasm of a storyteller, Kirby explores all of the South's peoples and their landscapeshow humans have used, yielded, or manipulated varying environments and how they have treated forests, water, and animals. Citing history, literature, and cinematic portrayals along the way, Kirby also relates how southerners have thought about their part of Earthas a source of both sustenance and delight.

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