In The Place with No Edge , Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana.
Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River Delta is one of the most dynamic la.
He finds that people\'s use of Technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with--rather than independence from--the environment.
In The Place with No Edge , Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana