Alligator Tales

ISBN-13: 9781561641581 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 184 str.

Kevin M. McCarthy; John Moran; John Moran

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The alligator Florida s most feared, maligned animal. From the time European settlers first stepped onto Florida soil, the alligator has been a target of dread and revulsion and the hunter s gun. Collected here are true (and tongue-in-cheek) accounts of alligators and the people who have hunted them, been attacked by them, and tried to save them from extinction. Journey through the Everglades with 1800 s Seminoles, experts at stalking and killing gators. Go along with a Northern girl as she shoots my first alligator in my glove and veil. And learn how modern alligator hunters go about their business, which hasn t changed much in the last hundred years or so. If you like tall tales, you'll love Henry, the alligator-turned-head-waiter who becomes despondent when a pretty New York girl spurns his lovesick advances. Or Algy, the gator who survives a broiling in a furnace by his owners, who happen to think he s already dead and won t mind the heat. Or Two-Toed Tom, who may or may not have even existed, but who was blamed for everything from eating mules to terrorizing women and children."