The Everglades: River of Grass
6 best books like The Everglades: River of Grass (Marjory Stoneman Douglas): The Yearling, Don't Look Back, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
| Author | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| ISBN | 0689846231 |
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his...
| Author | Karin Fossum |
| ISBN | 0156031361 |
Meet Inspector Sejer: smart and enigmatic, tough but fair. At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquility...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393343405 |
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
Nearly...
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
| Author | Daniel Immerwahr |
| ISBN | 0374172145 |
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
| Author | Michael Grunwald |
| ISBN | 0743251075 |
The Swamp is the story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a journey from the...
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
| Author | Henry Fountain |
| ISBN | 1101904062 |
In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological...
