Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico

by James F. Barnett

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 main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496811135
• ISBN13: 9781496811134
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"