The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands

Eighteen of Florida's best-loved writers here share with you their affection for Florida's wild side--the beautiful heart...
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Author: Jeffrey S. Ripple
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The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands by Ripple, Jeffrey S.

The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands

€32,85

The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands

€32,85
Author: Jeffrey S. Ripple
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Eighteen of Florida's best-loved writers here share with you their affection for Florida's wild side--the beautiful heart of a state under siege from development.

Carl Hiaasen, Randy Wayne White, Al Burt, Patrick Smith, the late Archie Carr, and others evoke a Florida thick with pinewoods, alligators, and palmetto scrub; ribboned by miles of coast and dune; blessed with backcountry lakes, rivers, creeks, and springs. Strip malls and concrete cannot tame this wild Florida, but they can kill it. These essays offer passionate argument why that should not be allowed to happen.

Coming from a variety of backgrounds--fiction, journalism, poetry, and environmental writing--the writers turn their talent to one thing they have in common--a love for Florida's natural beauty and a commitment to preserve it. Their essays--some old favorites, most appearing here for the first time--are both a celebration and a pointed reminder of what we stand to lose.

Many of the areas singled out (the Lake Wales Ridge, the Panhandle's Topsail Hill, Goethe State Forest, and Tampa's Brooker Creek) were purchased through Florida's Preservation 2000, one of the nation's foremost land acquisition programs. All royalties from the book are being donated to the Florida chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Printed on recycled paper with soy ink.

Jeff Ripple, natural history writer and photographer, is the author of five books of interpretive natural history, including Sea Turtles, Florida--The Natural Wonders, and Southwest Florida's Wetland Wilderness: Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islands (UPF, 1996). He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Susan Cerulean, writer and biologist, is co-author of Florida Wildlife Viewing Guide. In 1997, the Governor's Council for a Sustainable Florida honored her with an Individual Environmental Educator Award. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.



Author: Jeffrey S. Ripple
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 03/14/1999
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.66w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780813016566


Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2000 pg. 50 - Recommended/Regional General
Library Journal 03/15/1999

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