An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature by Craig E. Colten

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature

Craig E. Colten

245 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an impossible but inevitable city. How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between...

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