Best popular natural history books on the South

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Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Brown Thrasher Books)
Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.32 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest 4.32 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians
Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians 4.38 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Blue Wall: Wilderness of the Carolinas and Georgia
The Blue Wall: Wilderness of the Carolinas and Georgia 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest 4.60 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Flower Hunter and the People
The Flower Hunter and the People really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians
Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Fields of Vision: Essays on the Travels of William Bartram
Fields of Vision: Essays on the Travels of William Bartram 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels
An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida
William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation
Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation 4.68 avg rating — 71 ratings
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William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South
Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South 3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram
The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades
Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades
by: Ted Levin
4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Hiking the Florida Trail: 1,100 Miles, 78 Days, Two Pairs of Boots, and One Heck of an Adventure
Hiking the Florida Trail: 1,100 Miles, 78 Days, Two Pairs of Boots, and One Heck of an Adventure 3.44 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Travels and Other Writings
Travels and Other Writings 3.99 avg rating — 96 ratings
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AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail 4.11 avg rating — 15,384 ratings
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The Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels
The Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt
Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass
Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature 4.24 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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Altamaha: A River and Its Keeper (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Altamaha: A River and Its Keeper (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River 4.23 avg rating — 84 ratings
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River Song: A Journey down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
River Song: A Journey down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
by: Joe Cook
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Swamp Song: A Natural History of Florida's Swamps
Swamp Song: A Natural History of Florida's Swamps 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee
The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Another Country: Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains
Another Country: Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains
Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains 3.93 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal
Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal 4.30 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia 4.14 avg rating — 659 ratings
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Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and Forests
Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and Forests 4.20 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians
Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians 4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts
Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts 3.84 avg rating — 292 ratings
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A Place Called Sweet Apple: Country Living and Southern Recipes
A Place Called Sweet Apple: Country Living and Southern Recipes 4.17 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town 3.92 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Lines, Tines & Southern Pines: Discovering Life through Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Tales
Lines, Tines & Southern Pines: Discovering Life through Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Tales 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island
Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Island Passages: An Illustrated History of Jekyll Island, Georgia
Island Passages: An Illustrated History of Jekyll Island, Georgia 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Wildflowers of Georgia
Wildflowers of Georgia 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Natural Communities of Georgia
The Natural Communities of Georgia 4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas
Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas 4.51 avg rating — 45 ratings
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia 4.32 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Georgia's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas
Georgia's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia
Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Exploring Florida's Emerald Coast: A Rich History and a Rare Ecology
Exploring Florida's Emerald Coast: A Rich History and a Rare Ecology 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Swamp Screamer: At Large with the Florida Panther
Swamp Screamer: At Large with the Florida Panther 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future
Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future 4.17 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change
Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Barrier Islands of the Florida Gulf Coast Peninsula
Barrier Islands of the Florida Gulf Coast Peninsula 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss
Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss 4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species
Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species 4.40 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Florida's Magnificent Land
Florida's Magnificent Land 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida
Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida 4.18 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation
The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
65.
A Florida Cattle Ranch
A Florida Cattle Ranch it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Everglades
The Everglades really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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An Environmental History of Northeast Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
An Environmental History of Northeast Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Florida Magnificent Wilderness: State Lands, Parks, and Natural Areas
Florida Magnificent Wilderness: State Lands, Parks, and Natural Areas it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Priceless Florida: Natural Ecosystems and Native Species
Priceless Florida: Natural Ecosystems and Native Species 4.64 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast
Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands
The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida
Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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unspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast
unspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise 4.19 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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The Florida Panther: Life And Death Of A Vanishing Carnivore
The Florida Panther: Life And Death Of A Vanishing Carnivore 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Coastal Dune Lakes: Jewels of Florida's Emerald Coast
Coastal Dune Lakes: Jewels of Florida's Emerald Coast it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Ocala National Forest
Ocala National Forest 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer
Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Bats of Florida
Bats of Florida 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Encounters with Florida's Endangered Wildlife
Encounters with Florida's Endangered Wildlife 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Nature's Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida
Nature's Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida
Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida 4.18 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Florida's Wetlands
Florida's Wetlands 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Florida's Waters
Florida's Waters 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Florida's Uplands
Florida's Uplands 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
by: Mark Derr
4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
88.
Along the St. Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers
Along the St. Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida
A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Florida (Roadside Geology, #30)
Roadside Geology of Florida (Roadside Geology, #30) 4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America 4.22 avg rating — 5,752 ratings
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Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History 3.87 avg rating — 385 ratings
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes 3.76 avg rating — 738 ratings
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Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940–1947
Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940–1947 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild 3.91 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River
Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast 4.29 avg rating — 944 ratings
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The Appalachian Forest, A Search For Roots and Renewal
The Appalachian Forest, A Search For Roots and Renewal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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