Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America / John M. Barry.
Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America / John M. Barry.
Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America / John M. Barry.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.
Call Numbers
N977.03/3
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Language
English
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Physical content
524 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Rising Tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. The story focuses on engineers James Eads and Andrew Humphreys, who hated each other. Out of the collision of their personalities and their theories came a compromise river policy that would lead to the disaster of the 1927 flood yet would also...
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Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America / John M. Barry.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-496) and index.
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Date Copyright
c1997.
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Call Numbers
N977.03/3
Record Identifier
74VvZ0ZpryRZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvZ0ZpryRZ
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ISBN
0684810468
9780684810461
DDC
977.03
MMS ID
991004746579702626
