"A collection of tales boiling with real estate dealers, egret poachers, rumrunners, mango growers, sportsmen, land grubbers, murderers, and mosquitoes. First printed in The Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, these stories constitute a rip-snorting glimpse back to a South Florida that now exists only in memory."--Miami Herald
"Reflects the same concerns found in her better-known non-fiction work--a fascination with the beauty of Florida and a warning against its imminent destruction."--Tallahassee Democrat
The subjects that would fire...
"A collection of tales boiling with real estate dealers, egret poachers, rumrunners, mango growers, sportsmen, land grubbers, murderers, and mosqui...
"This collection is a treasure . . . the poetry a delightful surprise. Everyone who cares about Florida will be inspired by the early musings of this legendary crusader."--Carl Hiaasen
"This volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of Douglas as well as the early tension between the environment and development in the state. It will be of tremendous value to historians interested in Florida's boom years and to environmental historians."--Suzan Harrison, Eckerd College
Often described as the savior of the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas is best known for...
"This collection is a treasure . . . the poetry a delightful surprise. Everyone who cares about Florida will be inspired by the early musings of th...
Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage, learned to write journalism and fiction and drama, took on the fight for feminism and racial justice and conservation long before those causes became popular, and embarked on a long and uncommonly successful voyage into self-understanding. Way before women did this sort of thing, she recognized her own...
Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, wh...
