The Everglades: River of Grass, Third Edition - Hardcover

Marjory Stoneman Douglas; Michael Grunwald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561649902 ISBN 13: 9781561649907

Publisher: Pineapple Press, 2016

Synopsis

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. 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. Grunwald points out that in 1947 the government was in the midst of establishing the Everglades National Park and turning loose the Army Corps of Engineers to control floods--both of which seemed like saviors for the Glades. But neither turned out to be the answer. Working from the research he did for his book, The Swamp, Grunwald offers an account of what went wrong and the many attempts to fix it, beginning with Save Our Everglades, which Douglas declared was "not nearly enough." Grunwald then lays out the intricacies (and inanities) of the more recent and ongoing CERP, the hugely expensive Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.

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Review:

"This beautiful and bitter, sweet and savage book may be recommended not only to all residents and tourists of Florida, but to all readers concerned with American life and the great relations of man to nature." -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

About this edition

• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1561649902
• ISBN 13: 9781561649907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 448