The Gulf Coast by Sara St Antoine
Written especially for families (with children ages 9 and up), this collection of stories, poems, and essays explores what makes the Gulf Coast region distinct, both culturally and environmentally. Four sections cover adventures (scalloping and hurricanes, for example); great places (swamps, bayous, lakes, and beaches); reapers and sowers (from cotton farmers to berry pickers); and wild lives (focusing on alligators, egrets, manatees, and other creatures). Featuring Choctaw legends and songs from the cotton fields, this book evokes the literature, history, geography, ecology, and society of one of America’s treasured regions.
Sara St. Antoine was eight years old when she first paddled a canoe--on the Huron River in her hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Within moments, she struck an overhanging tree branch and the canoe capsized. Since then, she has paddled lakes and rivers from Temagami, Ontario, to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. For all that, she says, I'm still better at soaking up the scenery from the bow of a canoe than steering a straight course from the stern. She is the editor of the Stories from Where We Live series, anthologies of literature from different regions of North America, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two daughters.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781571316653 |
| ISBN 10 | 1571316655 |
| Title | The Gulf Coast |
| Author | Sara St Antoine |
| Series | Stories From Where We Live |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
| Year published | 2006-08-10 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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