Mockingbird Song
and selected a stout club for self-defense. He pressed through the alliga- tors that blocked his ‘‘harbour’’ but found that ‘‘se ...
of their closing jaws, their plunging amidst the broken banks of fish, the rising with their prey some feet upright above the wa ...
twenty-three feet. Their body is as large as a horse; their shape exactly resembles that of a lizard, except their tail, which i ...
Photo of William Bartram’s drawing of alligators in St. Johns River, . Courtesy Florida State Archives. ...
Theodore Roosevelt, blasting away at Amazonian fauna from a big, comfort- able river cruiser.) As early as the s, alligators ...
mission recorded alligator attacks upon humans. These included bites from foot-long babies imprudently picked up, but also f ...
Live and let live: the most ancient, armored, and fearsome beside (but not too close to) the most preciously bred. tEnough of an ...
William complained little that the floating islands sometimes confounded navigation, especially in the lakes, where channels wer ...
‘n’ Blazes Northeastern Florida and St. Johns River (from Bill Belleville,River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida’s St. Johns River ...
Dessie womaned the outboard, whistling and requesting directions. Marjorie sat toward the bow with her compass and Coast and Geo ...
was psychological therapy that returned happiness. To Dessie, the sports- woman, it was another splendid lark. The best was surv ...
of land for at least an hour, not to mention in the path of large vessels. The safer western channel crossing was rough enough. ...
and, throughout the peninsula’s southern interior, seas of relatively undis- turbed wetlands. Fishman is just old enough, in oth ...
a modern man who collected with the aid of an automobile packed with a ‘‘weed wagon.’’ Finally, the brothers Roland (–) ...
We can’t get the state to do anything about it either.’’ What the state of Florida did accomplish was (in Fishman’s words) to ‘‘ ...
food cultures, whether real Key lime pie or the splendid simplicity of fried fish with slaw and hushpuppies, is an unmitigated d ...
and, just as notoriously, the grimy Mississippi in southern Louisiana (‘‘the American Ruhr’’) and Buffalo Bayou and other indust ...
scene of successive landscape transformations, most of them traumatic. Southeastern North America, later ‘‘The South’’ of the Un ...
Chesapeake Corporation Paper Mill at West Point, Virginia, s. Courtesy Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. ...
Point’s rescue began while my father was a schoolboy. A brilliant Swedish paper chemist and entrepreneur appeared and, with the ...
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