The Wild Heart of Florida
Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands
Edited
by Jeff Ripple and Susan Cerulean
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Eighteen of
Florida’s best-loved writers here share with you
their affection for Florida’s wild side--the
beautiful heart of a state under siege from development.
Carl Hiaasen, Randy Wayne White, Al Burt, Patrick Smith,
the late Archie Carr, and others evoke a Florida thick with pinewoods, alligators, and palmetto
scrub; ribboned by miles of coast and dune; blessed with
backcountry lakes, rivers, creeks, and springs. Strip
malls and concrete cannot tame this wild Florida, but
they can kill it. These essays offer passionate argument
why that should not be allowed to happen.
Coming from a variety of backgrounds--fiction,
journalism, poetry, and environmental writing--the
writers turn their talent to one thing they have in
common--a love for Florida’s natural beauty and a
commitment to preserve it. Their essays--some old
favorites, most appearing here for the first time--are
both a celebration and a pointed reminder of what we
stand to lose.
Many of the areas singled out (the Lake Wales Ridge, the
Panhandle’s Topsail Hill, Goethe State Forest, and
Tampa’s Brooker Creek) were purchased through Florida’s
Preservation 2000, one of the nation’s foremost land
acquisition programs. All royalties from the book are
being donated to the Florida chapter of The Nature
Conservancy.
Printed on recycled paper with soy ink.
Jeff Ripple, natural history writer and
photographer, is the author of five books of interpretive
natural history, including Sea Turtles, Florida--The
Natural Wonders, and Southwest Florida’s Wetland
Wilderness: Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand
Islands (UPF, 1996). He lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Susan Cerulean, writer and biologist, is co-author of Florida
Wildlife Viewing Guide. In 1997, the Governor’s
Council for a Sustainable Florida honored her with an
Individual Environmental Educator Award. She lives in
Tallahassee, Florida.
1999. 224pp. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.
ISBN 0-8130-1653-3 Cloth, $34.95s
ISBN 0-8130-1656-8 Paper, $19.95
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"Contributors include novelists, journalists,
poets, and scientists, as well as the editors
themselves. Their eloquent essays offer
elegies for the past and celebrations of what
remains of Florida ecosystems, from the
Panhandle pine forsets to the overcrowded
Keys. . . . [T]hose interested in environmental
writing at its finest, will find this a
worthwhile purchase." -- Library Journal
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