The Southern Forest: A Chronicle

by Laurence C. Walker

Book Overview

When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which they and their descendants used--and abused--the forest over the next nearly four hundred years form the subject of The Southern Forest.

In chapters on the explorers, pioneers, lumbermen, boatbuilders, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292769504
• ISBN13: 9780292769502
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"