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| Snake Key (photo courtesy of Jeff Ripple's on-line gallery) |
University Press of Florida
Book of the Month - April
The Wild Heart of Florida
Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands
Edited by Jeff
Ripple and Susan Cerulean
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.
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| Snake Key (photo courtesy of Jeff Ripple's on-line gallery) |
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.
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| Apalachicola Bay (photo courtesy of Jeff Ripple's on-line gallery) |
Read
an 8-page essay from the book written by the noted Florida
author, Carl Hiassen
(in Adobe PDF format)
( Click here to download Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) Reader)
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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