The Mississippi: A Visual Biography by Quinta Scott (Author). Photographer Quinta Scott has documented the development of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico, with hundreds of stopping factors alongside the way. Scott explains how we have now changed every website depicted, how we try to handle it, and the wildlife that occupies it. This majestic ebook is nothing lower than a natural biography of the Mississippi, exhibiting that, to know the river and its floodplain in the present day, we must understand the natural processes we now have disrupted.
This ebook, the result of a few years of travel and research, is one among my most treasured books. Using an antique big view digital camera, Quinta brings photographic images almost into 3D on these pages. Quinta makes use of her photos and her texts to take you to many byways, inlets, and shops formed by or left behind by the Mighty Mississippi–locations you have never heard of. She discovered them, visited them, photographed them, and wrote about them on this magnificent book. I have spent hours pouring over the pages and intend to spend many extra hours lost in the loveliness of this book. In case you are a “coffee desk guide” particular person, then it is best to definitely put this one on the high of your want list. I would like to personally thank the author for such a significant enterprise and the end result.
Quinta Scott’s e-book could not be more well timed, although it was written earlier than the BP disaster. Featured are tons of of superb photographs befitting the title–The Mississippi: A Visual Biography. Now put up BP fiasco, extraordinary photographs of already endangered marshes and wetlands may be all we have now left for the foreseeable future. Ms. Scott’s ebook contains in-depth accounts of the river’s historical past (from glacial era to current); of its complexity; and of its scope from headwaters to delta. A captivating read that takes you deep and leaves you in awe of “the great brown god” that bisects America.
This ebook is a real treasure to have. I’ve lived on among the bayou of Arkansas and Louisiana and those bayous are my greatest memories. This e-book takes me home. Stunning images and a very fascinating read.
The Mississippi: A Visual Biography
Quinta Scott (Author)
352 pages
University of Missouri Press; 1 edition (June 30, 2009)
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