Bibliograph

The Everglades, river of grass, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas ; illustrated by Robert Fink

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The Everglades, river of grass, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas ; illustrated by Robert Fink

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-433) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Everglades

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

959200390

Responsibility statement

by Marjory Stoneman Douglas ; illustrated by Robert Fink

Sub title

river of grass

Summary

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve the Everglades. In the new and updated Afterword, Michael Grunwald again tells us what has happened to them since then. Grunwald points out that in 1947 the government was in the midst of establishing the Everglades National Park and turning loose the Army Corps of Engineers to control floodsboth of which seemed like saviors for the Glades. But neither turned out to be the answer. Working from the research he did for his book, The Swamp , Grunwald offers an account of what went wrong and the many attempts to fix it, beginning with Save Our Everglades, which Douglas declared was "not nearly enough." Grunwald then lays out the intricacies (and inanities) of the more recent and ongoing CERP, the hugely expensive Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

Table Of 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

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