The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
by Jack E. Davis
🏆 Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History
A multi-award-winning environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico and the American Southern coastl—one of the most biodiverse and industrially-abused regions of the world. The Dallas Morning News hailed it as a “nonfiction epic” in the vein of Jared Diamond’s Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic.
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