Mockingbird Song
Ecological Landscapes of the South
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
Published:30th Sep '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This title discusses about Southerners and their habitat.The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With ""Mockingbird Song"", Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. Exhibiting violent cycles of growth, abandonment, dereliction, resettlement, and reconfiguration, this relationship, Kirby suggests, has the sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous vocalizations of the region's emblematic avian, the mockingbird.In a narrative voice marked by the intimacy and enthusiasm of a storyteller, Kirby explores all of the South's peoples and their landscapes - how 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 Earth - as a source of both sustenance and delight.
"Though Mockingbird Song is set in the South, it is about more than the South.... An original in the growing field of environmental history, elegantly conceived and beautifully written." - Bancroft Prize Committee"
ISBN: 9780807859223
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 569g
384 pages
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