Description

Hailed as a nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester s Atlantic (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis s The Gulf is by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of America s Sea (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood s role in the country s first offshore oil wells, this vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a national sacrifice zone (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written (Edward O. Wilson).