The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Jack E. Davis
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
172

The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. Davis Book Summary

Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History
Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain
Booklist Editors’ Choice (History)
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence

In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review).
Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).

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Informative and entertaining.. Informative and entertaining. I live in Florida and learned thousands of facts about the history, geography, flora, fauna, climatology and politics of a region I thought I knew well.

Brilliant writing, Incredible history. Jack E. Davis has written an incredible book about the past and current history of the Gulf of Mexico. There are not enough words to describe his brilliant historical story telling and helping us understand that the Gulf truly is America’s sea. Readers will also want to watch Professor Davis on C-Span discuss this important book. Quite simply, Davis’s book should be required reading for all Americans. (Maybe even read in conjunction with Martin Doyle’s book, The Source, about the history of America’s rivers.) The Calusa would be proud of Jack Davis.

Simply A Great Historical Classic. History brought to life in a novel like way!

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