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The Everglades river of grass

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Main Author: Douglas, Marjory Stoneman (Author)
Other Authors: Fink, Robert, 1905-1989 (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Sarasota, Florida : Pineapple Press, Inc, [2017]
Edition:70th anniversary edition.
Subjects:
Everglades (Fla.) > Description and travel.
Everglades (Fla.) > History.
Everglades (Fla.) > Environmental conditions.
Natural history > Florida > Everglades.
Florida > History.
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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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