by Roger A. Morse
The legend of Richard Archbold (1907-1976), one of Florida’s most prominent biologists, began in the remote jungles of Madagascar and New Guinea, journeys recorded in the pages of
National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post in the 1920s and 1930s.
25 b&w photos, chart, appendix, notes, references, index. |
by Elizabeth Ogren Rothra
"A richly detailed portrait of the unstoppable and fascinating Simpson." —South Florida History Charles Torrey Simpson (1846–1932) settled in South Florida in 1902 and devoted the next thirty years to interpreting the subtropical plants and animals he found there, becoming the environmental spokesman to the droves of settlers and tourists who arrived and developed the "Sunshine State" in the twenties. Though he was well known during his lifetime, few details have been written about Simpson’s formative years. Elizabeth Rothra describes his development from a country boy to a respected conchologist and member of the Department of Mollusks at the Smithsonian Museum to a distinguished authority on tropical horticulture and natural history. 240 pp. 24 b&w photos. ISBN 0-8130-1374-7 Cloth, $29.95 |
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Life and Travels of John Bartram: From Lake Ontario to the River St. John (1990) by Edmund Berkeley & Dorothy Smith Berkeley "A long needed biography of the pioneering American naturalist whose explorations and collecting were so influential in the founding of American natural history. This handsome, readable volume will please the scholar and engross the generalist."—Nina J. Root, Chair, Library of the American Museum of Natural History 376 pp. Illustrations. ISBN 0-8130-0995-2 Paper, $19.95 The Correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777 (1992) Edited by Edmund Berkeley & Dorothy Smith Berkeley "His Majesty’s Botanist for North America," Bartram exchanged letters with naturalists, merchants, gardeners, other Quakers, British nobility, and his "much Respected ould and Constant Friend," Benjamin Franklin (Franklin commiserates with Bartram on his failing eyesight, even mailing him a selection of thirteen pairs of spectacles). In all of them, Bartram expresses himself frankly on subjects ranging from plant reproduction to the nature of creation. 818 pp. 20 b&w photographs. ISBN 0-8130-1123-X. Cloth, $85.00 Totch: A Life in the Everglades (1993) by Loren G. "Totch" Brown
279 pp. Map, 50 photos. ISBN 0-8130-1228-7 Paper, $17.95 |
Saving American Birds: T. Gilbert Pearson and the Founding of the Audubon Movement (1992) by Oliver H. Orr, Jr. "A captivating account of one of the neglected pioneers of the conservation movement."—Roland C. Clement, past president, National Audubon Society T. Gilbert Pearson (1873-1943) was one of the most influential ornithologists in North America, crusading for the cause of conservation a century before the modern movement to save the earth’s resources. After joining the AOU in 1891, Pearson organized efforts to protect birds that were vulnerable to commercial exploitation and unregulated hunting. In 1902 he founded the Audubon Society of North Carolina, the South’s first state agency for wildlife. By 1911, the year this account ends, Pearson had become the first full-time leader of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 272 pp. 15 b&w photos. ISBN 0-8130-1129-9 Cloth, $49.95 CLASSICS BY ARCHIE CARR— The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores (1979) 1957 John Burroughs Medal "Writing in the best tradition of the great naturalist explorers."—Rachel Carson 266 pp. Illustrations, maps. ISBN 0-8130-0639-2 Paper, $16.95
High Jungles and Low (1992) "Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr’s The Windward Road, and its resurrection is very timely and welcome." — Peter Matthiessen 272 pp. 38 b&w photos, map. ISBN 0-8130-1135-3 Paper, $19.95
Ulendo: Travels of a Naturalist In and Out of Africa (1993) Preface by Marjorie Harris Carr "The sights to which he calls our attention . . . the mile-high mushroom swarms of kungo flies of Lake Nyasa, the buzzards’ ready manipulation of whirlwinds . . . are merely the chords from which, with the toughness of science and the insight of art, he improvises a brilliant opera of speculations about the evolution of animal adaptive behavior." —The New Yorker 326 pp. 27 photos, map. ISBN 0-8130-1179-5 Paper, $19.95 |
"The story of a remarkable man who yearned to be an explorer . . . and for a change had the wherewithal to realize his ambitions."—Dean
Amadon, curator (ret.), American Museum of Natural History
"An outstanding portrayal of
an important field naturalist witnessing the changing
environment of South Florida."—Florida
Historical Quarterly
"Totch Brown’s
memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and
the Everglades—the last real frontier in Florida,
and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the
United States —are invaluable as well as vivid and
entertaining, for Totch is a natural-born storyteller,
and his accounts of fishing and gator hunting as well as
his life beyond the law as gator poacher and drug runner
are evocative and colorful, fresh and exciting."
— Peter Matthiessen