The Everglades

by Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

• ISBN13: 9781561641352
• ISBN10: 1561641359
• Edition: 50th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Pineapple Pr Inc

Summary

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named the Everglades a "river of grass, " most people considered the area a vast and worthless swamp. Her book brought the world's attention to the need to preserve the Everglades, a unique environment that is home to countless animal and plant species.
- A treasured classic of nature writing first published over 50 years ago
- This book launched Marjory Stoneman Douglas's fight to preserve the Florida Everglades
- Persuasive and Inspired writing captured attention all over the world
- This Anniversary Eddition offers an update by Cyril Zaneski, environmental writer for the Miami Herald, on the events affecting the Glades since 1987

Table of Contents

I The Nature of the Everglades	5	(52)
II The People of the Glades	57	(23)
III The Discoverers	80	(27)
IV The Adventurers	107	(21)
V Captives and Martyrs	128	(17)
VI The Conquerors	145	(23)
VII Three Hundred Quiet Years	168	(17)
VIII The Free People	185	(20)
IX War in the Glades: Fighting Retreat	205	(15)
X War in the Glades: The Undefeated	220	(26)
XI The Coming of Peace	246	(22)
XII White Man's Return	268	(27)
XIII Drainage and the Frontier	295	(32)
XIV Boom, Blow, Bust, and Recovery	327	(22)
XV The Eleventh Hour	349	(42)
XVI Forty More Years of Crisis	391	(37)
Randy Lee Loftis
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
XVII Coming Together	428	(28)
Cyril Zaneski
Bibliography	456	(8)
Index	464