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144 reviews
Carl Hiaasen

Grand Central Publishing, 2007

Sexy, Wacky, Funny Book
Nature Girl is a screwball comedy for our modern age. Honey Santana and the other characters in this latest Hiaasen romp will make you laugh, with their zany, yet truthful views of our culture. You'll enjoy their fresh perspective on the Everglades, evils of telemarketing, private detectives and the media. If you love humor, fine storytelling and an insider's scoop, I'd also recommend Silicon ...

Lost Man's River

18 reviews
Peter Matthiessen

Vintage, 1998

Matthiessen's Mastery of Voice
I read "Lost Man's River" nearly 10 years ago, and finished the trilogy immediately following the release of #3. I've been a repeat reader of "Snow Leopard" and "Nine Headed Dragon River" and when I saw an unknown (to me) Matthiessen title I bought it on reflex, dug in, slogged, and followed in short-order to consume "Killing Mr. Watson" and wait impatiently for "Bone by Bone." When talking with ...

Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West (Hidden Travel)

9 reviews
Candace Leslie

Ulysses Press, 2008

Awesome!
I own a whole library worth of travel books and this is one of my favorites! Great suggestions for things to do and places to see. Plus her style of writing is very engaging. I really found it helpful in the Keys!!

Everglades

14 reviews
Randy Wayne White

Berkley, 2004

Everglades a nice return to a series I had abandoned
I have been a fan of Randy Wayne White since I first read his columns in Outside magazine. I loved the early books in the Doc Ford series, but felt that they took a dark and offensively misogynist turn somewhere around North of Havana. I stopped reading them after The Mangrove Coast. I joked to a friend that the author must be going through a nasty divorce or something, because he seemed to ...

Forever Island & Allapattah: A Patrick Smith Reader

1 review
Patrick D. Smith

Pineapple Press (FL), 1998

Wonderful book!
Patrick Smith is one of my favorite writers. His ability to transform me from where I am into the middle of the everglades blows me away! I love the history, geography and attention to detail in Forever Island! I must admit the ending did surprise me! Great book, if you love Florida you will love all of his writings.

The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

21 reviews
Michael Grunwald

Simon & Schuster, 2007

"There is only one Everglades"
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise Once dismissed as a dismal swamp fit only for alligators, snakes, flamingos and Indians, the Everglades has become a battle ground in Florida's continuing tension between development and conservation. In "The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise," Michael Grunwald writes a well-researched and fluently ...

Everglades Assault
Randy Striker

Signet, 2008

Skinny Dip

319 reviews

Knopf, 2004

Ton o' Fun
This was my first Hiaasen. Gotta say, I was captured from the first paragraph. Really, get out of your robe (or even better, stay in it) and go to the bookstore right now and read that opening page. You'll thank me later. I've seen some other reviews citing that our lead good guy here isn't as compelling or developed as he should be. Perhaps, but I didn't have a problem with that. He is more ...

Everglades River of Grass 60th Anniversary Edition

2 reviews
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Pineapple Pr, 2007

Excellent
This is an excellent book on the Everglades, the history of Florida, and the ecology of Florida.

Killing Mister Watson

23 reviews
Peter Matthiessen

Vintage, 1991

Excellent exploration into human nature
It took me a few chapters to get totally hooked on this narrative. At first, I wondered why I'd want to read a book that gave the ending in the first few paragraphs as well as in its title. Soon, though, I realized that not only is this a well-written historical novel about the early years of Florida's development, it's a haunting exploration into the nature of human beings. How all of Mr. ...

Trouble Dolls

5 reviews
Jimmy Buffett, Savannah Jane Buffett

Harcourt Children's Books, 1991

TROUBLE DOLLS PROVES NOT TROUBLING TO READ!
TROUBLE DOLLS by JIMMY BUFFETT and SAVANNAH JANE BUFFETT is a really great story! It has many elements within it that are similar to the life of JIMMY BUFFETT, which PARROTHEADS will be sure to notice. The imagination runs wild in reading TROUBLE DOLLS! Mental pictures of the Florida Keys and longing for them are results of reading this book. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, ...

Everglades

3 reviews
Jean Craighead George

HarperTrophy, 1997

A 5th Grade's Class Review
We just finished reading EVERGLADES by Jean Craighead George. The storyteller was a great idea. His words really caught our attention. This book, even though it was about real life, read like a fictional story. We especially liked the way Ms. Craighead George used various synonyms to express just how many creatures were in the Everglades in the beginning. In addition to the colorful ...

Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism (Florida ...

1 review
STUART B. MCIVER

University Press of Florida, 2003

AN ENTERTAINING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK
I have read Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, An Illustrated History by Mr. McIver and thought that was a great book. But his newest one is even better! It is a fascinating story not only about the struggle between Walter Smith and Guy Bradley, but also about the plume trade and its major players, the Audubon Society's foundations, important people in South Florida's history who had their ...

Everglades National Park Florida: Trails Illustrated (National Geographic Maps: Trails Illustrated)

1 review

National Geographic, 2001

roads are great, islands have changed
If you need a general overview of the area and the roads, this map is great. If you need a map of the small island keys, then this won't help much as the keys have changed a lot since the last two hurricanes. If you need a map of the island keys, I recommend getting the most recent navigational map that you can.

Gateways

27 reviews

Forge Books, 2003

GATEWAYS to GREAT READING!
Now this is the way to write terrific and superior action/adventure! F. Paul Wilson's 7th Repairman Jack novel is much better than the last one - The Haunted Air - with Jack finally getting away from New York and going into the wilds of Florida's Everglades. A fantastic setting for a fantastic romp full of misfits and witches hiding out in a secret locale in the Glades, coming out every three ...

The Panther Mystery (Boxcar Children Mysteries)

3 reviews
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Albert Whitman & Company, 1998

Exciting
The Panther Mystery is a good book. My son and I read it together and had a hard time putting it down.

Totch: A Life in the Everglades

8 reviews
Loren G. "Totch" Brown

University Press of Florida, 1993

An Amazing Life Story
This book is a wonderfully informative and touching story of a great and honorable man. Through Totch we learn of a nearly forgotten way of life and we see the Everglades as it used to be. I appreciate his honesty and plainspokeness and I'm thankful Totch made this book to preserve an important history. I also recommend the three movies made about him: Totch Brown's tales of the Everglades and ...

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

27 reviews
Karen Russell

Knopf, 2006

for those of us raised by wolves
Ms. Russell offers the perfect view of reality as seen through a child's mask of fantasy -- or should I say, a view of how the world really is without an adult's blinders?

A Paddler's Guide to Everglades National Park

8 reviews
JOHNNY MOLLOY

University Press of Florida, 2000

Don't leave home without it!
As an experienced Everglades paddler who has logged over 400 miles in the Everglades backcountry, I can't say enough about this book. Johnny Molloy has provided a level of detail that is truly extraordinary, and his descriptions of the trails and campsites are dead on the money. The maps alone make this book worth having. This book should find a permanent place of your list of indispensable ...

The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Second Edition

3 reviews
Thomas E. Lodge

CRC, 2004

A Wonderful Guide to Understanding the Everglades
As an environmental consultant, I found the first edition of The Everglades Handbook to be very useful, and the second edition even better! There are new chapters and very important new information, such as the new chapters on the Big Cypress Swamp, Lake Okeechobee, and "Synthesis" with its diagrams of succession and food chains, and the updated final chapter with details of human history in ...

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