Reviews

"From introduction to epilogue, Jackson weaves a fascinating story from an amazing variety of sources: primary, secondary, oral histories, and personal observations. The book is entertaining, informative, poignant, and finally, to me, profoundly sad. The fact that the Coosa, Tallapoosa, and Alabama now are 'elongated lakes' with little if any of a once-abundant biota should be a constant reminder to us all of the price we have paid for 'civilization.' Rivers that had existed for some 15,000 years have been harnessed and befouled in less than one century. Jackson's book chronicles this process for the Alabama River system."
--Douglas E. Jones, Director, Alabama Museum of Natural History