ISBN10: 0826218407, ISBN13: 9780826218407, [publisher: University of Missouri Press, Missouri] Hardcover Hardcover. Consider the Misi-zibi, the Great River: what natural forces took sixty thousand years to shape, we Americans molded to our needs in three hundred, damaging its wetlands, in some cases, beyond repair. Photographer Quinta Scott has documented the progression of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico, with hundreds of stopping points along the way. In this remarkable volume - the only book to focus on the topography of the whole river and its floodplain - she blends images and text to weave a comprehensive view of the riparian landscape as a living organism and of the effects of human intervention on its natural processes. Scott began photographing sites along the Mississippi just before the flood of 1993, and her images reflect the sweep of the river's history, from the Pleistocene era to Katrina.Wielding her large-format camera along the river's entire stretch, she captures important sites - places like Bayou de View in the Arkansas 'Big Woods', where the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was sited in 2004, and the Timablier Island, a barrier island and hurricane speed bump - that represent both what Americans has done to change the river and our current attempts to restore its damaged ecosystems. In 200 dramatic color photographs, Scott illustrates the geographical and botanical features of the river and ...
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