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Marjory Saves the Everglades

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Author : Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534431551
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Marjory Saves the Everglades written by Sandra Neil Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vibrant…an ideal starting point for further learning.” —School Library Journal “A lively portrayal of Douglas as a remarkable individual and a significant environmental activist.” —Booklist From acclaimed children’s book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin. Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn’t intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it. Marjory couldn’t sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the protected wildlife reserve it has become today.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades

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Author : Sandra Wallus Sammons
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1561644706
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades written by Sandra Wallus Sammons and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, dubbed "the grandmother of the Everglades," a woman who devoted her life to teaching the importance of preserving the unique habitat of southern Florida.

An Everglades Providence

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Author : Jack E. Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033071X
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book An Everglades Providence written by Jack E. Davis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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Author : Jennifer Bryant
Publisher : Twenty First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805021134
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Marjory Stoneman Douglas written by Jennifer Bryant and published by Twenty First Century Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the woman who became known as the "Grandmother of the Glades" for her fight to preserve the Florida Everglades against misuse and development.

The Three Marjories

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Author : Sandra Wallus Sammons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683340361
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Three Marjories written by Sandra Wallus Sammons and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida is lucky to have had three women — three Marjories — speaking out about saving Florida's natural environment. Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the “Mother of the Everglades.” She wrote The Everglades: River of Grass, the seminal and now classic book on this unique region of south Florida. She was a tireless campaigner for the environment and helped make the Everglades a national park. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her books set in Florida: The Yearling, Cross Creek, and South Moon Under, all set in the then-remote wilderness of central Florida. Her very popular books brought the world's attention to the importance of the culture and natural environment of this region. Marjorie Harris Carr fought to save the Oklawaha River by challenging the building of the Cross Florida Barge Canal. She argued that this would cut the ecology of the state in two, particularly ruinous for the wildlife. Now there is the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway, which serves as a bridge for wildlife through developed areas and over I-75.

The Everglades

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Author : Anne McCrary Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683340957
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Everglades written by Anne McCrary Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everglades National Park’s mangrove ecosystem, extending over 230,000 acres of south Florida, is the most expansive in the western hemisphere and the largest continuous system of mangroves in the world. Most of this mangrove area is remote, accessible only by boat, complex and difficult to navigate. In The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness we hear 21 stories from people who have ventured into this wilderness—for scientific work, artistic work, search-and-rescue missions, for personal renewal, or for the pure adventure of it. They tell stories of manatee rescue, shark encounters, storms and strandings, stories of environmental value and threat, wild beauty, personal enchantment and spirit. Together these stories reveal a world beyond the reach of most travelers. They also offer support and offer enticement to the intrepid few who may venture “out there” and return with stories of their own.

Among the Beautiful Beasts

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Author : Lori McMullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647421071
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Among the Beautiful Beasts written by Lori McMullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early 1900s, Among the Beautiful Beasts is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a tireless activist for the Florida Everglades. After a childhood spent in New England estranged from her father and bewildered by her mother, who fades into madness, Marjory marries a swindler thirty years her senior. The marriage nearly destroys her, but Marjory finds the courage to move to Miami, where she is reunited with her father and begins a new life as a journalist in that bustling, booming frontier town. Buoyed by a growing sense of independence and an affair with a rival journalist, Marjory embraces a life lived at the intersection of the untamed Everglades and the rapacious urban development that threatens it. When the demands of a man once again begin to swallow Marjory’s own desires and dreams, she sees herself in the vulnerable, inimitable Everglades and is forced to decide whether to commit to a life of subjugation or leap into the wild unknown. Told in chapters that alternate between an urgent midnight chase through the wetlands and extensive narrative flashbacks, Among the Beautiful Beasts is at once suspenseful and deeply reflective.

Marjory Saves the Everglades

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Author : Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 13 : 1534431543
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Marjory Saves the Everglades written by Sandra Neil Wallace and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vibrant…an ideal starting point for further learning.” —School Library Journal “A lively portrayal of Douglas as a remarkable individual and a significant environmental activist.” —Booklist From acclaimed children’s book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin. Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn’t intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it. Marjory couldn’t sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the protected wildlife reserve it has become today.

The Everglades: River of Grass

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Author : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 168334295X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Everglades: River of Grass written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Afterword, Michael Grunwald 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 floods--both 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.

One Night in the Everglades

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Author : Laurel Larsen
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 0981770061
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book One Night in the Everglades written by Laurel Larsen and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2012-06-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow two scientists as they spend a night in the Everglades collecting water samples, photographing wildlife, and sloshing through marshes in an attempt to understand this mysterious ecosystem. Part of a long-term effort to return the Everglades to a natural state after a century of development, the scientists try to figure out what the “river of grass” was like prior to human settlement. Along the way, they deal with razor-sharp sawgrass and alligators and turtles and are even surprised by the sudden presence of what is known in the Everglades as a “frog gigger”—one who hunts and collects frogs for food! Published in cooperation with the Long Term Ecological Research Network, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Friend of the Everglades

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Author : Tricia Andryszewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781562943844
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Friend of the Everglades written by Tricia Andryszewski and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells about the life of an environmentalist who worked for more than sixty years to preserve the Florida Everglades.

Paving Paradise

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Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813037433
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Paving Paradise written by Craig Pittman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida possesses more wetlands than any other state except Alaska, yet since 1990 more than 84,000 acres have been lost to development despite presidential pledges to protect them. How and why the state's wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and negligence on the part of federal and state agencies that led to a failure to enforce regulations on developers. They traveled throughout the state, interviewed hundreds of people, dug through thousands of documents, and analyzed satellite imagery to identify former wetlands that were now houses, stores, and parking lots. Exposing the unseen environmental consequences of rampant sprawl, Pittman and Waite explain how wetland protection creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the tide of destruction.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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Author : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561647799
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Marjory Stoneman Douglas written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage, learned to write journalism and fiction and drama, took on the fight for feminism and racial justice and conservation long before those causes became popular, and embarked on a long and uncommonly successful voyage into self-understanding. Way before women did this sort of thing, she recognized her own need for solitude and independence, and built her own little house away from town in an area called Coconut Grove. She still lives there, as she has for over 40 years, with her books and cats and causes, emerging frequently to speak, still a powerful force in ecopolitics. Marjory Stoneman Douglas begins this story of her life by admitting that "the hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself" and ends it stating her belief that "life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or a longer life, are not necessary." The voice that emerges in between is a voice from the past and a voice from the future, a voice of conviction and common sense with a sense of humor, a voice so many audiences have heard over the years—tough words in a genteel accent emerging from a tiny woman in a floppy hat—which has truly become the voice of the river.

A River in Flood, and Other Florida Stories

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Author : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813016238
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A River in Flood, and Other Florida Stories written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas: "Written as entertainment for a mass market . . . crammed with colorful characters, vivid incidents and palpable atmosphere. . . . A reminder of a Florida gone by or fast disappearing."--Orlando Sentinel "Reflects the same concerns found in her better-known non-fiction work--a fascination with the beauty of Florida and a warning against its imminent destruction."--Tallahassee Democrat In the pantheon of Florida writers, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) is cherished as the grande dame. Famous as the author of The Everglades: River of Grass, prolific as a writer, and passionate as an environmental crusader for almost a century, she became the nation's best link to a remarkable era in Florida history. The timeless themes of her stories in this new collection resonate with interest for readers today. Whether the subject is hurricanes, cockfighting, real estate deals, struggling immigrants, or corruption in the Everglades, Douglas wrote about it with distinction--and usually first. Originally published in the Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s and 1930s, the golden age of the short story, these nine works have never before been collected or available in one place. Kevin M. McCarthy, who edited the companion volume, Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, offers an introduction to each story, explaining its significance, setting, unusual references, place in Douglas's works, and significance to the history of South Florida. Kevin M. McCarthy, professor of English and Florida studies at the University of Florida, is the author or editor of nineteen other books, including Florida Lighthouses, Florida Stories, and More Florida Stories (published by the University Press of Florida). The stories: "At Home on the Marcel Waves" "Solid Mahogany" "Goodness Gracious, Agnes" "A River in Flood" "The Mayor of Flamingo" "Stepmother" "You Got to Go, But You Don't Have to Come Back" "High-Goal Man" "Wind Before Morning"

The Everglades

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Author : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781561641352
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Everglades written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Swamp

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Author : Michael Grunwald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743251075
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Swamp written by Michael Grunwald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning r"Washington Post" reporter tells the story of the Florida Everglades, from its beginnings as 4,500 off-putting square miles of natural liquid wasteland to the ecological mess it has become. Photos.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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Author : Kem Knapp Sawyer
Publisher : Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781878668202
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Marjory Stoneman Douglas written by Kem Knapp Sawyer and published by Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA). This book was released on 1994 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and career of the environmentalist who has crusaded to preserve the Florida Everglades.