The Most Southern Place on Earth
Subtitle: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 28, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195089134
First sentence: Early travelers' accounts did not exaggerate the difficulties inherent in clearing and settling such a swampy wilderness, but those who wrote off the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta's long-term prospects for development failed to appreciate the importance that the remarkable fertility of tis continually replenished alluvial soil would assume in a regional, national, and international economy grown ravenous for cotton.