| #567436 in Books | Douglas, Marjory Stoneman/ Fink, Robert (ILT)/ Grunwald, Michael (CON) | 2007-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.73 x1.28 x5.79l,1.39 | File Name: 1561643947 | 447 pages
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| A classic|By J. E. Tarbox|To be honest, I am having trouble wading through this volume. The writing is, in a word, florid. It's something of a slog. BUT, it is a classic, THE book on the Everglades, and it tells the story of the ways the Everglades were "tamed," as well as, until its publication date, the efforts that were made to save it. There are other books out there t||"This beautiful and bitter, sweet and savage book may be recommended not only to all residents and tourists of Florida, but to all readers concerned with American life and the great relations of man to nature."|About the Author
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--bo...
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