The Mississippi River in Maps & Views
The Mississippi River in Maps & Views

Author: Robert A. Holland

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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In The Mississippi River in Maps & Views more than eighty glorious full-color maps dating from as early as 1544 celebrate "Ol’ Man River," this profound artery at the heart of America, and the extraordinary cities that grew up on its shores, including New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, and Minneapolis–St. Paul. Beautifully drawn maps document Fernando de Soto’s explorations and "discovery" of the river, as well as those of the Marquett and Joliet Expeditions. Other maps present key moments along the Mississippi in times of war (The French and Indian War, The War of 1812, The Civil War). More recent though equally artful maps and charts seek a scientific understanding of the river toward an end of controlling it, and gorgeous bird’s-eye views ultimately extol the river’s beauty and its environs above all else. A consideration of the Mississippi and its history as a major highway toward America’s discovery of itself, through a comprehensive selection of the most beautiful maps dealing with it, will give new insight to the complex—sometimes nostalgic, sometimes practical—relationship of this country to its most storied river.

Minn of the Mississippi
Minn of the Mississippi

Author:

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1951

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780395273999

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Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.

Plantations on the Mississippi River
Plantations on the Mississippi River

Author: Persac

Publisher:

Published: 1979-06-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780911116267

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This beautiful full-color map documenting the ownership of plantations along the Mississippi River between Natchez and New Orleans was drawn to scale in 1858 by a leading landscape painter.

Mississippi Floods
Mississippi Floods

Author: Anuradha Mathur

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0300084307

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"Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?" "The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape. Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780395404300

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A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans

Author: Laura Kilcer VanHuss

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0807175722

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Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of accomplishment and prosperity, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac’s map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes. Essays by Laura Ewen Blokker and Suzanne Turner consider the built and designed landscapes of plantations as they were structured by the logics and logistics of both slavery and the effort to present a façade of serenity and wealth. William Horne and Charles D. Chamberlain III delve into the political activity of formerly enslaved people and slaveholders respectively, while Christopher Willoughby explores the ways the plantation health system was defined by the agro-industrial environment. Jochen Wierich examines artistic depictions of plantations from the antebellum years through the twentieth century, and Christopher Morris uses the famed Uncle Sam Plantation to explain how plantations have been memorialized, remembered, and preserved. With keen insight into the human cost of the idealized version of the agrarian South depicted in Persac’s map, Charting the Plantation Landscape encourages us to see with new eyes and form new definitions of what constitutes the plantation landscape.

The Mississippi River
The Mississippi River

Author: Jen Green

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2003-07-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780836837575

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With its source near the U.S.-Canadian border and its mouth at a delta on the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River cuts north to south through the middle of the United States and drains a vast portion of North America. The busiest inland waterway in North America, the river flows past cities rich with unique cultures that have inspired the creation of new traditions in food, music, literature, and language. Book jacket.