Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Editors' Introduction
• E. L. Corthell"The Delta of the Mississippi," National Geographic (1897)
• Catherine Cole"Last Island," New Orleans Daily Picayune (1888)
• Lafcadio HearnChita: A Memory of Last Island (1889)
• John MuirA Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)
• Jovita González"El Cenizo," "The Mocking Bird," and "The Guadalupana Vine," Texas and Southwestern Lore (1927)
• Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
• William Faulkner"Old Man," The Wild Palms (1939)
• Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsThe Yearling (1938)
• Marjory Stoneman DouglasThe Everglades: River of Grass (1947)
• Theodore RosengartenAll God's Dangers (1974)
• Eastern Creek Indians"Petition for Recognition" (1978)
• Joy Harjo"New Orleans," She Had Some Horses (1983)
• John McPhee"Atchafalaya," The Control of Nature (1989)
• Eddy HarrisMississippi Solo (1988)
• Robert BullardDumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (1990)
• John BarryRising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997)
• Susan OrleanThe Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (1998)
• Roger Emile Stouff"The Back End of the Canal" (2003)
• Mike TidwellBayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (2003)
• Steve LernerDiamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (2005)
• Diane WilsonAn Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas (2005)
• Michael GrunwaldThe Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise (2007)
• Cynthia BarnettMirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. (2008)
• Oliver HouckDown on the Batture (2010)
• Bob Marshall"A Paradise Lost," The Times-Picayune (2010)
• Josh NeufeldNew Orleans after the Deluge (2010)
• Natasha TretheweyBeyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010)
• Jesmyn WardSalvage the Bones (2011)
• David GessnerThe Tarball Chronicles: A Journey beyond the Oiled Pelican and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill (2011)
• Moira CroneThe Not Yet (2012)
• Kate Galbraith and Asher PriceThe Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power (2013)
• Peggy FranklandWomen Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement (2013)
• Richard MizelleBackwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination (2014)
• Bob Marshall"Losing Ground," The Lens, ProPublica (2015)
• Antonia Juhasz"Thirty Million Gallons under the Sea," Harper's Magazine (2015)
• Arlie HochschildStrangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016)
• Neena Satija"Hell and High Water," The Texas Tribune, Reveal, ProPublica (2016)
• Edward WilsonHalf Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (2016)
• Justin Nobel"The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip," Longreads (2017)
• Jack DavisThe Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (2017)
• Sources and Acknowledgments
• Appendix 1. Collected Texts in Thematic Order
• Appendix 2. A Very Limited List of Additional Suggested Reading
• List of Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Tori Bush is a writer based in New Orleans and a PhD candidate at Louisiana State University. Richard Goodman, associate professor of creative nonfiction writing at the University of New Orleans, is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France.

Reviews

"Incredibly useful not only as a collection of works on an already popular theme that has value in their collation outright but also as a case study in environmental understanding and awareness of regional history. . . . Serves as inspiration for future works of the like and hopefully will catapult the next generation of environmental scholars to continue drawing from the region's rich past to shape our impressions of its present."--H-Net

"Thoroughly enjoyable. . . . An incredibly rich sampling of fiction, nonfiction, reportage, poetry, and even a graphic novel."--French Quarter Journal
"A
thorough and essential compilation of writing on the bays and bayous of the
largest area of wetlands in the United States. . . . Useful for courses in
environmental writing and studies, climate change, or for anyone wishing to
learn more about the complexities of the Gulf region, its threatened
ecosystems, and its resilient communities."--ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment