The Everglades
Author: David McCally
Publisher:
Published: 2000-10-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780813018270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the formation, development, and history of the Everglades
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The Everglades
Author: Anne McCrary Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1683340957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverglades National Park’s mangrove ecosystem, extending over 230,000 acres of south Florida, is the most expansive in the western hemisphere and the largest continuous system of mangroves in the world. Most of this mangrove area is remote, accessible only by boat, complex and difficult to navigate. In The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness we hear 21 stories from people who have ventured into this wilderness—for scientific work, artistic work, search-and-rescue missions, for personal renewal, or for the pure adventure of it. They tell stories of manatee rescue, shark encounters, storms and strandings, stories of environmental value and threat, wild beauty, personal enchantment and spirit. Together these stories reveal a world beyond the reach of most travelers. They also offer support and offer enticement to the intrepid few who may venture “out there” and return with stories of their own.
Marjory Saves the Everglades
Author: Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1534431551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Vibrant…an ideal starting point for further learning.” —School Library Journal “A lively portrayal of Douglas as a remarkable individual and a significant environmental activist.” —Booklist From acclaimed children’s book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin. Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn’t intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it. Marjory couldn’t sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the protected wildlife reserve it has become today.
Moving Water
Author: Amy Green
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021-03-02
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1421440369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engrossing exposé tackles some of the most important issues of our time: Is it possible to save a complex ecosystem such as the Everglades—or, once degraded, are such ecological wonders gone forever? What kind of commitments—economic, scientific, and social—will it take to rescue our vulnerable natural resources? What influences do special interests wield in our everyday lives, and what does it take to push real reform through our democracy? A must-read for anyone fascinated by stories of political intrigue and the work of environmental crusaders like Erin Brockovich, as well as anyone who cares about the future of Florida, this book reveals why the Everglades serve as a model—and a warning—for environmental restoration efforts worldwide.
An Everglades Providence
Author: Jack E. Davis
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 082033071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the suffragist, feminist, and environmentalist who fought for the preservation and protection of the Everglades and won the battle that turned it into a national wilderness area.
Everglades Patrol
Author: Tom Shirley
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012-09-03
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0813042771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades. In Everglades Patrol, Shirley shares the stories from his beat--an ecosystem larger than the state of Rhode Island. His vivid narrative includes dangerous tales of hunting down rogue gladesmen and gators and airboat chases through the wetlands in search of illegal hunters and moonshiners. During his thirty-year career (1955-1985), Shirley saw the Glades go from frontier wilderness to "ruination" at the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers. He watched as dikes cut off the water flow and controlled floods submerged islands that had supported man and animals for 3,000 years, killing much of the wildlife he was sworn to protect.
Crackers in the Glade
Author: Rob Storter
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780820330433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA visually stunning account of bygone days in the Everglades transports readers to the remote, half-wild frontier of southwest Florida in the early part of the twentieth century. Reprint.
Swamplife
Author: Laura Ogden
Publisher:
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780816677023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades.
Everglades
Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-05-25
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1101161477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White, Doc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin's Bay to find an old friend and one-time lover waiting for him. Her real-estate developer husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, and she's sure there's worse to follow--and she's right. Following the trail, Ford ends up deep in the Everglades, at the gates of a community presided over by a man named Bhagwan Shiva (formerly Jerry Singh). Shiva is big business, but that business has been a little shaky lately, and so he's come up with a scheme to enhance both his cash and his power. Of course, there's the possibility that some people could get hurt and the Everglades itself damaged, but Shiva smells a killing. And if that should turn out to be literally, as well as figuratively, true...well, that's just too damned bad.
