Journalist, filmmaker, and environmental activist Ben Raines turns his attention to Alabama's Tensaw Delta in this gorgeously illustrated and meticulously researched book. Identified by Raines and others as America's own Amazon, the Tensaw Delta is the most biodiverse ecosystem in our nation. This special book celebrates this most significant of Alabama's waterways while also chronicling how it is increasingly at risk.
Journalist, filmmaker, and environmental activist Ben Raines turns his attention to Alabama's Tensaw Delta in this gorgeously illustrated and meticulously researched book. Identified by Raines and others as America's own Amazon, the Tensaw Delta is the most biodiverse ecosystem in our nation. This special book celebrates this most significant of Alabama's waterways while also chronicling how it is increasingly at risk.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ben Raines is a journalist, filmmaker, and adventurer. In May of 2019, officials announced that Raines had discovered the wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. Raines has won more than two dozen awards for his coverage of environmental issues and natural wonders in Alabama and on the Gulf Coast and has co-authored several peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals. He wrote and directed The Underwater Forest, an award-winning film about the exploration of a seventy-thousand-year-old cypress forest found off the Alabama coast. Raines also wrote and produced the documentary America's Amazon, which has aired on PBS stations around the country and been distributed to public schools across Alabama. His underwater film work has appeared in documentaries on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and PBS. Raines co-authored the book Heart of a Patriot with Senator Max Cleland, which chronicled Cleland's journey from triple amputee to the US Senate. Raines is presently working on a book about the discovery of the Clotilda. Raines is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in filmmaking. He is also a US Coast Guard-licensed captain who gives tours of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and Alabama's barrier islands. He lives with his wife in Fairhope, Alabama.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword vii Preface x Acknowledgments xii 1 Saving America's Amazon 3 2 Meet America's Amazon-Not Always Fresh, But Never Frozen 13 3 Behold the Zeuglodon! 19 4 A Desert but for the Rain 25 5 Where the Rivers Meet the Sea 33 6 The Bog-A Real-Life Little Shop of Horrors 45 7 The Fertile Crescent 51 8 Harnessing Nature's Bounty 59 9 Dam It All! 73 10 A Delta Dimmed 87 11 Protecting the Edges 103 Index 113
Foreword vii Preface x Acknowledgments xii 1 Saving America's Amazon 3 2 Meet America's Amazon-Not Always Fresh, But Never Frozen 13 3 Behold the Zeuglodon! 19 4 A Desert but for the Rain 25 5 Where the Rivers Meet the Sea 33 6 The Bog-A Real-Life Little Shop of Horrors 45 7 The Fertile Crescent 51 8 Harnessing Nature's Bounty 59 9 Dam It All! 73 10 A Delta Dimmed 87 11 Protecting the Edges 103 Index 113
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