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High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
High Cotton Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
Author: Gerard Helferich
Tracy Kidder meets John McPhee in the hot sun of the Mississippi Delta, in this year in the life of a modern-day cotton farmer. The rich, flat topsoil of the Mississippi Delta has seen both astonishing economic production and some of the most tragic history in our nation's past. It is, in Richard Ford's apt phrase, "the South's South." Conte...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781582433530
ISBN-10: 1582433534
Publication Date: 6/25/2007
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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A flowing, highly readable narrative of cotton, cotton growing, Delta history, the problems of small scale farming, all revealed by following one farmer's growing year.
This book is chock full of " Wow, I did not know that" information and new looks at even familiar material.

Great read for those who like to collect tidbits of information about "stuff".


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