The Wilder Heart of Florida: More Writers Inspired by Florida Nature

ISBN-13: 9781683401636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Jack E. Davis; Leslie K. Poole

Spis treści

• Foreword
• Introduction —Jack E. Davis and Leslie K. Poole
• Part I. Beckonings
• Seduction in Key West — Susan Lilley
• The Story under the Story — Lauren Groff
• Our Land — Buffalo Tiger
• Soldier's Creek Trail — Terry Ann Thaxton
• Part II. Revelations
• Innocence Found — Bill Maxwell
• The Seine — Jack E. Davis
• My First Audubon Trip Hasn't Ended Yet . . . — Charles Lee
• Florida Boy — David McCally
• The River That Raised Me — Gabbie Buendia
• The Breathers, St. Mark's Lighthouse — Rick Campbell
• Part III. Animals
• Birds and Refuge — Frederick R. Davis
• The Quiet Song of Sanibel Island — Cynthia Barnett
• The Habits of Alligators — Loren G. "Totch" Brown
• Gator! — Lee Irby
• Feast of Pythons (Homage to Harry Crews) — Isaac Eger
• One Manatee, Two Nations — Anmari Alvarez-Alemán
• Woodpeckers and Wildness: The Disney Wilderness Preserve — Leslie K. Poole
• Sighting by the St. Johns — Russ Kesler
• Part IV. Water
• Up the Okalawaha: A Sail into Fairy-Land — Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Musings — Margaret Ross Tolbert
• The Pulse of Paynes Prairie — Lars Andersen
• From Springs Heartland to Wasteland . . . and Back? — Lucinda Faulkner Merritt
• Wilderness from the Water — Claire Strom
• The Rhythms of the Lagoon — Clay Henderson
• Raw Water — Gianna Russo
• Part V. Terra Firma
• Excerpts from The Galley — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
• The Natural Aesthetic of the Naked God — Bruce Stephenson
• Don't Mourn the Orange — Mark Jerome Walters
• Seasons of Love — Erika Henderson
• Biscayne National Monument: Preserving Our Precious Bays — Nathaniel Pryor Reed

  Part VI. At the Heart

  Some Day the Sea — Richard Blanco

  From A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper — Betty Mae Tiger Jumper and Patsy West

• A Plea for Wider Justice — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
• Florida Is a Pretty Girl —Frances Susanna Nevill
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Credits