| The Yazoo River Contributor(s): Smith, Frank E. (Author), Molpus, David (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0878053557 ISBN-13: 9780878053551 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1988 Annotation: An immensely pleasurable book that unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in the United States, the culturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 976.24 |
| LCCN: 88001123 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.06 lbs) 380 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Yazoo River unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in America, the culturally, strategically, and agriculturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo. It is a land that has produced the best cotton, the Blues, celebrated personages, and a style of living like that nowhere else. The author, Frank E. Smith, was a U.S. Congressman from this region. His perspective on the Yazoo Delta Region, therefore, is particularly valuable since it comes from his varied experience as a member of the House of Representatives, where he concentrated on the special problems of conservation and development of natural resources, and from his being a consecrated devotee and native son of the Delta. In The Yazoo River he recounts the important history, the folklife, and the heritage that make this place unique. Though time and social revolution in the Civil Rights era have brought many changes to the Yazoo region, Frank Smith's book remains virtually undated in the fair balance he gives his accounts and in his presentation of historical fact. |
