{"title":"Marjory Stoneman Douglas","description":"Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a journalist and environmentalist who helped defend the Florida Everglades.","products":[{"product_id":"the-everglades-river-of-grass-paperback","title":"The Everglades: River of Grass - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore 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 Afterword, Michael Grunwald 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367953236191,"sku":"9781683342946","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wW8GgzvGC29781683342946.webp?v=1789116958"},{"product_id":"nine-florida-stories-by-marjory-stoneman-douglas-paperback","title":"Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A collection of tales boiling with real estate dealers, egret poachers, rumrunners, mango growers, sportsmen, land grubbers, murderers, and mosquitoes. First printed in \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, these stories constitute a rip-snorting glimpse back to a South Florida that now exists only in memory.\"--\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eTallahassee Democrat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Everglades: River of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Editor Kevin McCarthy relates each story to Douglas's life and points out the autobiographical touches which surface frequently in her stories.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nine stories in this first collection, satisfyingly diverse in plot and theme, take place in a scattering of South Florida settings--Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, the Tamiami Trail, the Keys, Hillsboro Inlet, the Everglades. In among the drama of hurricanes and plane crashes, of kidnappers, escaped convicts, and smugglers, Douglas plants flags that mark the stories as her own: plume hunters who threaten Florida's ibises, irrational schemes to drain the Everglades, what happens when human beings collide with nature in the form of water, weather, or wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370046947551,"sku":"9780813009940","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uwrC6_Xug49780813009940.webp?v=1789150249"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/marjory-stoneman-douglas.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}