Torry Island Boy of the Everglades
Torry Island Boy of the Everglades

Author: Ann Spann Tyler

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 9780967935102

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Describes the boyhood of Henry M. "Pete" Lee, a cowboy and farmer who grew up on Torry Island in Lake Okeechobee in southeast Florida, detailing the settling of the area by his pioneer relatives from the 1890s to the mid-twentieth century.

An Everglades Providence
An Everglades Providence

Author: Jack E. Davis

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13: 082033071X

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Profiles 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
Everglades

Author: Steve Davis

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 954

ISBN-13: 9780963403025

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The 31 chapters provide a wealth of previously unpublished information, plus topic syntheses, for a wide range of ecological parameters. These include the physical driving forces that created and continue to shape the Everglades and patterns and processes of its flora and fauna. The book summarizes recent studies of the region's vegetation, alligators, wading birds, and endangered species such as the snail kite and Florida panther. This referee-reviewed volume is the product of collaboration among 58 international authors from 27 institutional affiliations over nearly five years. The book concludes with a synthesis of system-wide restoration hypotheses, as they apply to the Everglades, that represent the integration and a collective viewpoint from the preceding 30 chapters. Techniques and systems learned here can be applied to ecosystems around the world.

Killer 'Cane
Killer 'Cane

Author: Robert Mykle

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

Published: 2006-06-23

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1461733707

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Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.