The Everglades : river of grass

Author

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Call Number

• 975.939 D735 2007 (CEN)

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Edition

60th anniversary ed.

Publication Information

Sarasota, Fla. : Pineapple Press, 2007.

Physical Description

447 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Notes

Original ed.: New York : Rinehart, 1947.

Contents

• The nature of the Everglades
• The people of the Glades
• The discoverers
• The adventurers
• Captives and martyrs
• The conquerors
• Three hundred quiet years
• The free people
• War in the Glades : fighting retreat
• War in the Glades : the undefeated
• The coming of peace
• White man's return
• Drainage and the frontier
• Boom, blow, bust, and recovery
• The eleventh hour
• Afterword / by Michael Grunwald.