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Everglades

Describes the Florida Everglades, the evolution of this unique area, and the impact humans have had on its once-abundant life forms.

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Main Author: George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012
Other Authors: Minor, Wendell (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1995.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Everglades (Fla.) > Juvenile nonfiction.
Everglades National Park (Fla.) > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:Describes the Florida Everglades, the evolution of this unique area, and the impact humans have had on its once-abundant life forms.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:0060212284
0060212292 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:Jean Craighead George was born on July 2, 1919 in Washington, D.C. She received degrees in English and science from Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a reporter for the International News Service. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps for The Washington Post.

During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels including My Side of the Mountain, which was a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves, which won the Newbery Medal, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. She also wrote two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography entitled Journey Inward. In 1991, she became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature. She died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 92.

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