An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century

by Jack E. Davis and Jack Emerson Davis

Book Overview

No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic "The Everglades: River of Grass" had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve and boundless energy of this implacable elder won the hearts of an admiring public while confounding her opponents--growth merchants intent on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082033071X
• ISBN13: 9780820330716
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 810 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"