Holding Back the Sea
Subtitle: The Struggle for America's Natural Legacy on the Gulf Coast
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: January 1, 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780061122682
First sentence: Now Jim's dead. His nephew, Jeff, tells me this, leaning over the balcony railing of his big square house up on stilts on Bayou du Large, looking down at me, and not looking too friendly.