Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Jennifer Bryant
Publisher: Twenty First Century Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780805021134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life of the woman who became known as the "Grandmother of the Glades" for her fight to preserve the Florida Everglades against misuse and development.
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.
Author: Judith Bauer Stamper
Publisher: Steck-Vaughn
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780811480598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the successful efforts of concerned citizens to stop construction of a jetport that would have destroyed the Florida Everglades.
Author: Sandra Wallus Sammons
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 1561644706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, dubbed "the grandmother of the Everglades," a woman who devoted her life to teaching the importance of preserving the unique habitat of southern Florida.
Author: Sandra Wallus Sammons
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-05-01
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1683340361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorida is lucky to have had three women — three Marjories — speaking out about saving Florida's natural environment. Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the “Mother of the Everglades.” She wrote The Everglades: River of Grass, the seminal and now classic book on this unique region of south Florida. She was a tireless campaigner for the environment and helped make the Everglades a national park. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her books set in Florida: The Yearling, Cross Creek, and South Moon Under, all set in the then-remote wilderness of central Florida. Her very popular books brought the world's attention to the importance of the culture and natural environment of this region. Marjorie Harris Carr fought to save the Oklawaha River by challenging the building of the Cross Florida Barge Canal. She argued that this would cut the ecology of the state in two, particularly ruinous for the wildlife. Now there is the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway, which serves as a bridge for wildlife through developed areas and over I-75.
Author: Lori McMullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1647421071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the early 1900s, Among the Beautiful Beasts is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a tireless activist for the Florida Everglades. After a childhood spent in New England estranged from her father and bewildered by her mother, who fades into madness, Marjory marries a swindler thirty years her senior. The marriage nearly destroys her, but Marjory finds the courage to move to Miami, where she is reunited with her father and begins a new life as a journalist in that bustling, booming frontier town. Buoyed by a growing sense of independence and an affair with a rival journalist, Marjory embraces a life lived at the intersection of the untamed Everglades and the rapacious urban development that threatens it. When the demands of a man once again begin to swallow Marjory’s own desires and dreams, she sees herself in the vulnerable, inimitable Everglades and is forced to decide whether to commit to a life of subjugation or leap into the wild unknown. Told in chapters that alternate between an urgent midnight chase through the wetlands and extensive narrative flashbacks, Among the Beautiful Beasts is at once suspenseful and deeply reflective.
Author: Dan Bar-el
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1534433457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuane the polar bear and the other animals of the very, very far north find their friendships deepening as they are challenged by the arrival of a contentious weasel and an unexpected departure.
Author: Leslie Kemp Poole
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0813059410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in how the Sunshine State values its many and marvelous natural resources. At the beginning of the twentieth century women didn’t have the vote, but by the end of the century they were founding issue-specific groups, like Friends of the Everglades, and running state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They set the foundation for the next century’s environmental agenda, which came to include the idea of sustainable development, which meshes ecology and economy to enhance energy efficiency and the function of natural systems. This is an indispensable history that not only underscores the importance of women in the environmental movement but also shows how as a collective force they forever altered how others saw women’s roles in society.
Author: Thomas E. Lodge
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1994-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781884015069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe home of egrets, herons, ibises, and one of our greatest restoration challenges.
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.
