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Shadows on the Gulf : A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland by Rowan Jacobsen is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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"A sensitive and elegant amble through both a tragedy and an ecosystem. Required reading for anyone trying to understand the Gulf in its entirety." --Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish "Brimming with engaging information about a little-known region and leavened with moments of grace...Rowan Jacobsen succeeds in painting the 'sort of cubist portrait of a beautiful and sometimes contradictory region' he envisioned. And this fragmented portrait turns out to be all the more beautiful and melancholy for being accompanied by the persistent, doleful sounds of a pipe organ." --Wall Street Journal In the spring of 2010, as we watched oil gushing unstoppably into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, many Americans turned their focus to the region for the first time, wondering how this could happen and demanding corporate and government accountability. Yet Rowan Jacobsen brings a surprising perspective to the as bad as the spill was, it is only the latest chapter in a century-long story of destruction. At the height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each day merely equaled the amount of dispersant that washes down the Mississippi from the Heartland's dishwashers and wash

Who reads Shadows on the Gulf : A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland?

Author

Rowan Jacobsen

Publisher

New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781608195817

Category

science

Subjects

Political Science, Engineering, Science

Rating

3.89 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14