portada The Mobile River: With a New Preface (en Inglés)

The Mobile River: With a New Preface (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

John S. Sledge

Editorial

University of South Carolina Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

372

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781643365275

N° edición

0002

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del sur
Historia de américa
Historia marítima
Geografía histórica
Historia local

The Mobile River: With a New Preface (en Inglés)

John S. Sledge (Autor) · University of South Carolina Press · Tapa Blanda

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Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal experiences for a rich and rewarding read. Illustrated with more than sixty color and black-and-white images, The Mobile River beautifully communicates a strong sense of place. Beginning at Nannahubba, where the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers meet, the Mobile River serves as the outlet for the sixth largest river basin in the United States and the largest one emptying into the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi. Sledge takes readers on a journey through history framed and sometimes directed by this expansive watershed. A tale spanning colonial forts, international treaties, and thundering naval battles, and populated by characters, including Indian warriors, European diplomats, cartographers, enslaved Africans, Civil War generals, hydraulic engineers, and "Rosie the Riveter" women workers, The Mobile River presents a pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity. In a new preface, Sledge addresses the 2018 discovery of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in America.