books about: everglades

books about: everglades

books:

Everglades

Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West (Hidden Travel)

Candace Leslie

Ulysses Press, 2008

Never left my side
Our vacation in the Keys wouldn't have been so amazing had we not bought this book. Everything we did, ate, and enjoyed came from a recommendation found within the pages of this easy to read and user-friendly guide. The references to ocean-side vs. gulf-side made it ...

Frommer's Florida 2009 (Frommer's Complete)
Lesley Abravanel

Frommers, 2008

America?s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer?s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. More annually updated guides than any other series 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides Outspoken opinions, exact ...

Everglades Assault

Randy Striker

Signet, 2008

Awful, but....
It gives you a Randy Wayne White fix until the next Doc Ford book comes out. This one was truly awful, where some of the others were entertaining in the same way as some of those Hollywood special forces movies are.

Everglades

Randy Wayne White

Berkley, 2004

Everglades a nice return to a series I had abandoned
I have been a fan of Randy Wayne White since I first read his columns in Outside magazine. I loved the early books in the Doc Ford series, but felt that they took a dark and offensively misogynist turn somewhere around North of Havana. I stopped reading them after ...

Everglades River of Grass 60th Anniversary Edition
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Pineapple Pr, 2007

Updated and revised for the 60th Anniversary. New afterword by Michael Grunwald, author of The Swamp.

Frommers 500 Places to See Before They Disappear (500 Places)
Holly Hughes

Frommers, 2008

500 Places to See Before They Disappear enables passionate travelers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocably altered or even gone forever. Here are one-of-a-kind landscapes, fragile ecosystems, rare bird habitats, places to see the last remaining species ...

A Paddler's Guide to Everglades National Park

JOHNNY MOLLOY

University Press of Florida, 2000

Don't leave home without it!
As an experienced Everglades paddler who has logged over 400 miles in the Everglades backcountry, I can't say enough about this book. Johnny Molloy has provided a level of detail that is truly extraordinary, and his descriptions of the trails and campsites are dead on ...

Killing Mister Watson

Peter Matthiessen

Vintage, 1991

Review of "Killing Mister Watson"
Killing Mr. Watson is a historical fiction based on the 1910 vigilante murder of Edgar Watson in the Everglades of southwest Florida. Mr. Watson is a shadowy character who appears in the south Florida town of Chokoloskee at the turn of the century, when south Florida ...

Skinny Dip

Knopf, 2004

Ton o' Fun
This was my first Hiaasen. Gotta say, I was captured from the first paragraph. Really, get out of your robe (or even better, stay in it) and go to the bookstore right now and read that opening page. You'll thank me later. I've seen some other reviews citing that our ...

The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

Michael Grunwald

Simon & Schuster, 2007

"There is only one Everglades"
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise Once dismissed as a dismal swamp fit only for alligators, snakes, flamingos and Indians, the Everglades has become a battle ground in Florida's continuing tension between development and conservation. ...

Lost Man's River

Peter Matthiessen

Vintage, 1998

Read "Killing Mr. Watson" first
This is the second book of a trilogy that begins with "Killing Mr. Watson," and ends with "Bone by Bone." If you read Killing Mr. Watson, and were fascinated by it, as many readers and critics have been, you'll be tempted to read the rest of the trilogy. Dead Man's ...

First Drop (Charlie Fox Mysteries)

Zoe Sharp

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005

First Drop is awesome
Zoë is awesome to begin with... I was so happy that her 4th book finally got a US publisher so the US can read her series. If you read this book and love it, she has 4 others, but the problem is they are only published as of now in the UK. But the good news is that ...

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

Karen Russell

Knopf, 2006

for those of us raised by wolves
Ms. Russell offers the perfect view of reality as seen through a child's mask of fantasy -- or should I say, a view of how the world really is without an adult's blinders?

Everglades

Jean Craighead George

HarperTrophy, 1997

A 5th Grade's Class Review
We just finished reading EVERGLADES by Jean Craighead George. The storyteller was a great idea. His words really caught our attention. This book, even though it was about real life, read like a fictional story. We especially liked the way Ms. Craighead George used ...

Mysteries in Our National Parks: Deadly Waters: A Mystery in Everglades National Park (Mysteries in Our ...

Gloria Skurzynski, Alane Ferguson

National Geographic Children's Books, 2007

Great book for fifth graders
I teach fifth grade in Fort Myers, Florida. We are not too far from Everglades National Park. I use this book every year as a novel unit. It is a wonderful adventure story about 3 teens in Everglades National Park. It is very real for Florida students, but could be ...