| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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Book Review

Immortal River: The Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times. By Calvin R. Fremling. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. xii + 429 pp. Includes illustrations, bibliographical references and index. Cloth $70.00, paper $29.95.

This book is not an environmental history. Its author, an aquatic ecologist, makes no pretense that it is, although the title emphasizes a temporal perspective. This book is not a natural history, although it includes many elements of one and the classification included on the cover defines it that way. Calvin Fremling, a professor emeritus at Winona State University, states that it "documents the history of the Mississippi River and the dramatic changes that have transpired as humans have exploited and attempted to subdue the Father of Waters" (p. 6). Yet this description is incomplete. I think the publisher's description is most apt: it is a "primer" to the upper Mississippi River.

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