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Marjory Saves the Everglades
Author | : Sandra Neil Wallace |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781534431553 |
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“Vibrant…an ideal starting point for further learning.” —School Library Journal “A lively portrayal of Douglas as a remarkable individual and a significant environmental activist.” —Booklist From acclaimed children’s book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin. Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn’t intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it. Marjory couldn’t sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the protected wildlife reserve it has become today.
The Everglades River of Grass
Author | : Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
Publsiher | : Pineapple Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2021-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1683342941 |
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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 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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades
Author | : Sandra Wallus Sammons |
Publsiher | : Pineapple Press Inc |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Conservationists |
ISBN | : 9781561644704 |
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Biography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, dubbed "the grandmother of the Everglades," a woman who devoted her life to teaching the importance of preserving the unique habitat of southern Florida.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades
Author | : Sandra Wallus Sammons,Sandra Sammons |
Publsiher | : Pineapple Press Inc |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Conservationists |
ISBN | : 9781561644711 |
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Young adult biography of the Florida author and naturalist who wrote Everglades: River of Grass
An Everglades Providence
Author | : Jack E. Davis |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780820330716 |
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Profiles the suffragist, feminist, and environmentalist who fought for the preservation and protection of the Everglades and won the battle that turned it into a national wilderness area.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Author | : Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781561647798 |
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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 need for solitude and independence, and built her own little house away from town in an area called Coconut Grove. She still lives there, as she has for over 40 years, with her books and cats and causes, emerging frequently to speak, still a powerful force in ecopolitics. Marjory Stoneman Douglas begins this story of her life by admitting that "the hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself" and ends it stating her belief that "life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or a longer life, are not necessary." The voice that emerges in between is a voice from the past and a voice from the future, a voice of conviction and common sense with a sense of humor, a voice so many audiences have heard over the years—tough words in a genteel accent emerging from a tiny woman in a floppy hat—which has truly become the voice of the river.
The Everglades River of Grass
Author | : Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781683342953 |
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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 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.
Marjory Saves the Everglades
Author | : Sandra Neil Wallace |
Publsiher | : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781534431546 |
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“Vibrant…an ideal starting point for further learning.” —School Library Journal “A lively portrayal of Douglas as a remarkable individual and a significant environmental activist.” —Booklist From acclaimed children’s book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin. Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn’t intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it. Marjory couldn’t sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the protected wildlife reserve it has become today.