Research Guides: Douglas, Marjory Stoneman: Books

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The Everglades: river of grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas; Robert Fink (Illustrator)
Call Number: F317.E9D6 2017 Florida
ISBN: 9781561649907
Publication Date: 2016-12-01
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. Then, she brought the world's attention to the need to preserve The Everglades. In the new and updated Afterword, Michael Grunwald again tells us what has happened to them since then.
An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American environmental century by Jack E. Davis; Paul Sutter (Contribution by)
Call Number: QH31.D645 D38 2009 Florida (also ebook)
ISBN: 9780820346236
Publication Date: 2013-05-01
In the first comprehensive biography of Douglas, Jack E. Davis explores the 108-year life of this compelling woman. Douglas was more than an environmental activist. She was a suffragist, a lifetime feminist and supporter of the ERA, a champion of social justice, and an author of diverse literary talent. She came of age literally and professionally during the American environmental century, the century in which Americans mobilized an unprecedented popular movement to counter the equally unprecedented liberties they had taken in exploiting, polluting, and destroying the natural world.
The Everglades: an environmental history by David McCally; Raymond Arsenault (Foreword by); Gary R. Mormino (Foreword by)
Call Number: GE155.E84 M34 1999 Florida
ISBN: 0813016487
Publication Date: 2000-10-31
This important work for general readers and environmentalists alike offers the first major discussion of the formation, development, and history of the Everglades, considered by many to be the most endangered ecosystem in North America. Comprehensive in scope, it begins with South Florida's geologic origins--before the Everglades became wetlands--and continues through the 20th century, when sugar reigned as king of the Everglades Agricultural Area. Urging restoration of the Everglades, McCally argues that agriculture, especially sugar growing, must be abandoned or altered.
A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories by Marjory S. Douglas; Kevin M. McCarthy (Editor)
Call Number: PS3554.O8275 R58 1998 Florida
ISBN: 0813016223
Publication Date: 1998-11-03
Stories on Florida early this century, portraying the state as a place where men begin new lives rather than end them. Typical is The Mayor of Flamingo, on a man who abandons the city to become a farmer.
Nine Florida Stories by Marjory S. Douglas; Kevin M. McCarthy (Editor)
Call Number: PS3554.O8275 N56 1990 Florida
ISBN: 9780813009940
Publication Date: 1990-05-19
The subjects that would fire Marjory Stoneman Douglas's enthusiasm for the rest of her life first appeared in her short fiction published in the 1920s. Florida's most celebrated environmentalist, the author of The Everglades: River of Grass, wrote even then about protecting South Florida's fragile ecosystem and the state's endangered species, about the dangers of short-sighted land development, and about Florida history. The nine stories in this first collection take place in a scattering of South Florida settings--Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, the Tamiami Trail, the Keys, the Everglades--and reveal the drama of hurricanes and plane crashes, of kidnappers, escaped convicts, and smugglers. Editor Kevin McCarthy relates each story to Douglas's life and points out the autobiographical touches which surface frequently in her stories.
The joys of bird watching in Florida by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Call Number: QL684 .F6 D6 Florida
Publication Date: 1969
A beginner's guide to bird watching in Florida that includes a detailed description, rarity factor, and the best time and place to view each bird in its natural habitat.

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