Hurricane Creek

Résumé du livre

Among Alabama's many waterways, one in Tuscaloosa County is a swell little stream that in places roars like a hurricane. It is Hurricane Creek, The westernmost free-flowing stream in the Appalachian watershed, a magnific sash of Alabama beauty birthed on bedrocks of coal, forming as one meander after another, punctuated by huge old rocks, some honeycombed by water and time. It was created on a fault line separating two periods of geological history, and the place where coalmining began in 19th century Alabama. It is also a place that came back from a deadly tornado and decades of pollution. A recreational haven, the water is always in motion, dancing down to its destiny, the Black Warrior River. Nancy Callahan's book invokes the spirit of the creek's 34-mile course by way of essays, interviews, and oral histories. She uses Hurricane Creek as a metaphor in the global push to protect the world's water.