Suggested Reading List
The Living Gulf Coast: A Nature Guide to Southwest Florida
Author: Charles Sobczak
Description: Charles Sobczak is a guest lecturer. Bring your book with you and get it signed.
The Living Gulf Coast is the first comprehensive nature guide to Florida's Southwest region. The book covers six counties: Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Glades and Hendry. There are more than 160 parks, preserves and eco-destinations covered in this work, with sixty-one of them described in great detail. Not only does the book describe these outstanding destinations, it also covers all the major birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians found throughout the region.
A brief History of the Everglades City Area
Author: Marya Repko
Description: Marya Repko is a guest lecturer.
This is neither a guide book nor an academic book. It is exactly what the title says, a concise history of the area. The extensive index makes it a handy reference and the list of sources provides readers a starting point to dig deeper into this fascinating area.
The Swamp – The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Author: Michael Grunwald
Description: The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land.
The Everglades Handbook – Understanding the Ecosystem
Author: Thomas E. Lodge
Description: The Everglades Handbook provides a breadth and depth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades that cannot be found anywhere else. Written by Thomas Lodge, one of the most respected authorities on the Everglades and one of its most ardent protectors, the book is an updated, expanded, and comprehensive explanation of what the Everglades is, how it has been changed, and the restoration needed to bring back ecological functions and safeguard sustainable future uses of the region by people.
The Everglades: River of Grass
Author: Marjorey Stoneman Douglas
Description: When activist Jow Browder was trying to round up people to fight a proposed jetport in the Everglades, one of the people he approached was Marjory Stoneman Douglask whose 1947 Everglades:River of Grass had first brought the state's most famous marsh to a national audience. But she demurred. Nobody would listen to some half-blind old lady, the 78 year old writer said. People only pay attention to organizations. "Well" Browder retorted, "why don't you start an organization?" So she did, founding Friends of the Everglades with dues of $1.00 per year so everyone could join. Douglas not only denounced the jetport, she transformed herself into Florida's environmental conscience. She spent the next 30 years-until her death at 108-fearlessly confronting local,l state, and federal officials.
One of the most important book written about the FL Everglades.
Totch: A Life in the Everglades
Author: Loren G. Brown
Description: Totch was a devil most of his life, even by his own standards. It is interesting that he repented and claims to have tried to save the very same Everglades that he harvested most of his life. The book fives and accurate and in depth look at life as it was in a remote and still wild area of America.
The Living Gulf Coast: A Nature Guide to Southwest Florida
Author: Charles Sobczak
Description: The Living Gulf Coast is the first comprehensive nature guide to Florida's Southwest region. The book covers six counties: Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Glades and Hendry. There are more than 160 parks, preserves and eco-destinations covered in this work, with sixty-one of them described in great detail. Not only does the book describe these outstanding destinations, it also covers all the major birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians found throughout the region. The bird section includes 291 species with 120 of the most commonly encountered birds covered in exacting detail. It also includes all the major mammals and eighty-eight snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodilans found in the unique ecosystems of Southwest Florida.
Charles will be speaking on the program, and he will be available to sign copies of his book after his lecture. It can be found on Amazon.com
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