In his book, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina, Christopher Morris gives a total history of the Mississippi River area and its environment. The Big Muddy is one of the few environmental history monographs that covers an entire history of an area, using the history to discuss something that is more contemporary, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans.
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