Mockingbird song [[electronic resource] ] : ecological landscapes of the South / / Jack Temple Kirby

• Autore: Kirby Jack Temple
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.20975
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology - Southern States; Geographical perception - Southern States; Landscape assessment - Southern States
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Environmental conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-355) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 m
• Titolo autorizzato: Mockingbird song
• ISBN: 1-4696-0519-8; 0-8078-7660-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780982503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II