02924nam 22006854a 450 991045642520332120200520144314.01-4696-0519-80-8078-7660-7(CKB)2520000000007761(EBL)475192(OCoLC)642661011(SSID)ssj0000459172(PQKBManifestationID)11295978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000459172(PQKBWorkID)10460611(PQKB)10162915(SSID)ssj0000777610(PQKBManifestationID)12387416(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777610(PQKBWorkID)10755648(PQKB)11444340(MiAaPQ)EBC475192(OCoLC)966926199(MdBmJHUP)muse48349(Au-PeEL)EBL475192(CaPaEBR)ebr10351509(EXLCZ)99252000000000776120060406d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMockingbird song[electronic resource] ecological landscapes of the South /Jack Temple KirbyChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20061 online resource (384 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5922-2 0-8078-3057-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-355) and index.Prologue: An orientation mostly along St. Johns River -- Original civilizations -- Plantation traditions -- Commoners and the commons -- Matanzas and mastery -- Enchantment and equilibrium -- Cities of clay -- Epilogue: Postmodern landscapes.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 mHuman ecologySouthern StatesGeographical perceptionSouthern StatesLandscape assessmentSouthern StatesSouthern StatesEnvironmental conditionsElectronic books.Human ecologyGeographical perceptionLandscape assessment304.20975Kirby Jack Temple1034604MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456425203321Mockingbird song2453833UNINA