Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
“Last Island,” New Orleans Daily Picayune (1888)
Catherine Cole
Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889)
Lafcadio Hearn
“The Delta of the Mississippi River,” National Geographic (1897)
E. L. Corthell
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)
John Muir
“El Cenizo,” “The Mocking Bird,” and “The Guadalupana Vine,” Texas and Southwestern Lore (1927)
Jovita González
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Zora Neale Hurston
The Yearling (1938)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“Old Man,” The Wild Palms (1939)
William Faulkner
The Everglades: River of Grass (1947)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
All God’s Dangers (1974)
Theodore Rosengarten
“Petition for Recognition” (1978)
Florida Tribe of Eastern Creek Indians
“New Orleans,” She Had Some Horses (1983)
Joy Harjo
Mississippi Solo (1988)
Eddy Harris
“Atchafalaya,” The Control of Nature (1989)
John McPhee
“Houston’s Northwood Manor Neighborhood,” Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (1990)
Robert Bullard
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997)
John Barry
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (1998)
Susan Orlean
“The Back End of the Canal” (2003)
Roger Emile Stouff
Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast (2003)
Mike Tidwell
Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor (2005)
Steve Lerner
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas (2005)
Diane Wilson
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (2006)
Michael Grunwald
Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. (2008)
Cynthia Barnett
Down on the Batture (2010)
Oliver Houck
“A Paradise Lost”: Part 3, The Times-Picayune (2010)
Bob Marshall
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (2010)
Josh Neufeld
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010)
Natasha Trethewey
Salvage the Bones (2011)
Jesmyn Ward
The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill (2011)
David Gessner
The Not Yet (2012)
Moira Crone
The 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)
Kate Galbraith and Asher Price
Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement (2013)
Peggy Frankland
Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination (2014)
Richard M. Mizelle Jr.
“Losing Ground,” The Lens, ProPublica (2014)
Bob Marshall, Brian Jacobs, and Al Shaw
“Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea: Following the Trail of BP’s Oil in the Gulf of Mexico,” Harper’s Magazine (2015)
Antonia Juhasz
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016)
Arlie Hochschild
“Hell and High Water,” The Texas Tribune, Reveal, ProPublica (2016)
Neena Satija, Kiah Collier, Al Shaw, Jeff Larson, and Ryan Murphy
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life (2016)
Edward O. Wilson
“The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip,” Longreads (2017)
Justin Nobel
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (2017)
Jack E. Davis
Sources and Credits
Appendix 1. Collected Texts in Thematic Order
Appendix 2. A Very Limited List of Additional Suggested Reading
Index of Authors
Index of Concepts
Index of Places
Index of Titles
