Natural History and Outdoors
Fannye Cook
Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society Outstanding Book
Conservationist Fannye Cook (1889-1964) was the most widely known scientist in Mississippi and was nationally known as the go-to person for ...
Fragile Grounds
Recipient of a 2018 Preserve Louisiana Award and a 2018 Coastal Stewardship Award
Fragile Grounds compiles stories and photographs of endangered cemeteries throughout Louisiana's coastal zone and beyond. ...
Swamp Rat
Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands ...
Beyond Control
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the ...
Ain't There No More
Winner of the 2018 Louisiana Literary Award given by the Louisiana Library Association
For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal ...
Teche
Recipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Shane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into ...
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne
Winner of a 2017 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award
This book represents the first time that the known history and a significant amount of new information has been compiled into ...
The Land of Rowan Oak
The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the “little postage stamp of soil” that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years during the writing of many of his short stories and ...
The Geology of Mississippi
The Geology of Mississippi is an encyclopedic work by authors with extensive experience in Mississippi's surface geology mapping program. It brings together published work, unpublished work from agency ...
Deeper Currents
In Deeper Currents, Donald C. Jackson guides us on a journey into the cathedrals of wild and lonely places, those sacred spaces where hunters and fishers connect with the rhythms of the earth and the ...