Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle for America's Natural Legacy on the Gulf Coast - Tapa dura

Explores the fragility of nature and the massive erosion, rising sea levels, and other environmental threats that are destroying the largest wetland in the United States, a region of the Mississippi River Delta that affects forty percent of the nation's wetlands, a third of the nation's fish harvest, massive oil and gas reserves, and New Orleans. 30,000 first printing.