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Title: The Great River
Author: Boyce Upholt
Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Release date: 06-11-24
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 74 ratings
Genres: Outdoors & Nature
Publisher's Summary:
Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded "the great river" with awe and respect, adorning its banks with astonishing spiritual earthworks. But European settlers and American pioneers had a different vision: the river was a foe to conquer. In this landmark work of natural history, Boyce Upholt tells the epic story of human attempts to own and contain the Mississippi River, from Thomas Jefferson's expansionist land hunger through today's era of environmental concern
