Download or read book Three Letters on the Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River written by George W. R. Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River written by James Buchanan Eads and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mouth of the Mississippi written by James Buchanan Eads and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard and published by . This book was released on 1874* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River written by Lionel Allen Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mouth of the Mississippi Jetty System Explained written by James B. Eads and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mouth of the Mississippi. Jetty system explained by James B. Eads. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1874 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Download or read book A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River written by Elmer Lawrence Corthell and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mouth of the Mississippi River written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Control of Nature written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Download or read book Mouth of the Mississippi River Letter from the Secretary of War Relative to the Examination of the Mouth of the Mississippi River December 15 1874 Referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI written by JAMES B. EADS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River Letter from the Secretary of War in Relation to an Appropriation for the Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River February 25 1874 Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mouth of the Mississippi written by James Buchanan Eads and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Mississippi Floods written by Anuradha Mathur and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?" "The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape. Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Improvement Mouth of the Mississippi River Letter from the Secretary of War Relative to an Appropriation to Continue Work on the Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River February 16 1872 Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River Letter from the Secretary of War in Relation to the Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River June 19 1874 Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvement Mouth of the Mississippi River Letter from the Secretary of War Relative to an Appropriation to Continue Work on the Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi River written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
