TY - BOOK ID - 136233326 TI - Mockingbird Song PY - 2006 SN - 1469605198 0807876607 9780807876602 9781469605197 9780807859223 0807859222 0807830577 9780807830574 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology KW - Geographical perception KW - Landscape assessment KW - Southern States KW - Environmental conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136233326 AB - The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With Mockingbird Song, Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. Exhibiting violent cycles of growth, abandonment, dereliction, resettlement, and reconfiguration, this relationship, Kirby suggests, has the sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous vocalizations of the region's emblematic avian, the m ER -