Wilder Heart of Florida

Jack E. Davis is professor of history and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. He is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea and coeditor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Leslie K. Poole is assistant professor of environmental studies at Rollins College. She is the author of Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century.

• ForewordIntroduction —Jack E. Davis and Leslie K. PoolePart I. BeckoningsSeduction in Key West — Susan LilleyThe Story under the Story — Lauren GroffOur Land — Buffalo TigerSoldier's Creek Trail — Terry Ann ThaxtonPart II. RevelationsInnocence Found — Bill MaxwellThe Seine — Jack E. DavisMy First Audubon Trip Hasn't Ended Yet . . . — Charles LeeFlorida Boy — David McCallyThe River That Raised Me — Gabbie BuendiaThe Breathers, St. Mark's Lighthouse — Rick CampbellPart III. AnimalsBirds and Refuge — Frederick R. DavisThe Quiet Song of Sanibel Island — Cynthia BarnettThe Habits of Alligators — Loren G. "Totch" BrownGator! — Lee IrbyFeast of Pythons (Homage to Harry Crews) — Isaac EgerOne Manatee, Two Nations — Anmari Alvarez-AlemánWoodpeckers and Wildness: The Disney Wilderness Preserve — Leslie K. PooleSighting by the St. Johns — Russ KeslerPart IV. WaterUp the Okalawaha: A Sail into Fairy-Land — Harriet Beecher StoweMusings — Margaret Ross TolbertThe Pulse of Paynes Prairie — Lars AndersenFrom Springs Heartland to Wasteland . . . and Back? — Lucinda Faulkner MerrittWilderness from the Water — Claire StromThe Rhythms of the Lagoon — Clay HendersonRaw Water — Gianna RussoPart V. Terra FirmaExcerpts from The Galley — Marjory Stoneman DouglasThe Natural Aesthetic of the Naked God — Bruce StephensonDon't Mourn the Orange — Mark Jerome WaltersSeasons of Love — Erika HendersonBiscayne National Monument: Preserving Our Precious Bays — Nathaniel Pryor ReedPart VI. At the HeartSome Day the Sea — Richard BlancoFrom A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper — Betty Mae Tiger Jumper and Patsy WestA Plea for Wider Justice — Marjory Stoneman DouglasFlorida Is a Pretty Girl —Frances Susanna NevillAcknowledgmentsContributorsCredits

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