Bayou Farewell (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Mike Tidwell
- Type of Work: Nature
- Time of Work: 2000-2001
- Setting: The southern coast of Louisiana
- Subjects: Twenty-first century, Mississippi River, Native Americans or American Indians, Creoles, Ethnic groups, Ethnic relations, Cajuns, New Orleans, Rivers or waterways, Environment or environmental health, Fishing or fishermen, Louisiana, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Wildlife, Marshes, swamps, or wetlands, Sand or sand dunes
Many Americans are passionate about saving the world’s disappearing ecosystems. Newspaper and magazine articles, television and radio documentaries, and book after book stress the need to save the plant and animal life of Amazon rain forests or the Arctic refuges or the African savannas. In Bayou Farewell, nature writer and environmental advocate Mike Tidwell brings the ecological crusade closer to home for Americans. The result of more than a year of on-site research and months of reading, Tidwell’s book catalogs the alarming losses being suffered in a little-understood area...
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