A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS (1890-1998), Florida's eloquent and passionate environmentalist, shaped the world's perception of the Everglades as a vast, flowing river supporting a beautiful and carefully balanced ecosystem. Her lyric masterpiece, The Everglades: River of Grass, was published in 1947, the same year Everglades National Park was dedicated -- the same year federal engineers began their project to drain the Glades. She worked tenaciously to preserve the fragile wetland throughout her life, founding the nonprofit Friends of the Florida Everglades in her late seventies. Among her books are Florida: The Long Frontier, Alligator Crossing, Hurricane, and Freedom River. Years before her classic appeared, Douglas's short stories, published mainly in the Saturday Evening Post, evoked the natural splendor of Florida. The first collection of these, Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, was published by University Press of Florida in 1990 on the observance of her 100th birthday.

Summary

The themes of Marjory Stoneman Douglas' stories in this collection range from hurricanes, cock-fighting and real estate deals to struggling immigrants and corruption in the Everglades. They were originally published in the 1920s and 30s in the "Saturday Evening Post".

Product details

• Authors: Marjory Stoneman Douglas
• Assisted by: Larry Leshan (Illustration), Kevin McCarthy (Editor), Kevin M. McCarthy (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.1998
• EAN: 9780813016238
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-1623-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 209 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Series: Florida Sand Dollar Books; Florida Sand Dollar Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous