By Jack E. Davis
In the 1st finished biography of Douglas, Jack E. Davis explores the 108-year lifetime of this compelling lady. Douglas used to be greater than an environmental activist. She used to be a suffragist, a life-time feminist and supporter of the period, a champion of social justice, and an writer of numerous literary expertise. She got here of age actually and professionally throughout the American environmental century, the century during which american citizens mobilized an unparalleled well known circulate to counter the both exceptional liberties that they had taken in exploiting, polluting, and destroying the traditional world.
The Everglades have been a residing barometer of America's usually tentative shift towards larger environmental accountability. Reconstructing this greater photograph, Davis recounts the shifts in Douglas's personal existence and her instrumental function in 4 very important advancements that contributed to Everglades defense: the making of a good wetland snapshot, the construction of a countrywide park, the increasing impact of ecological technological know-how, and the increase of the trendy environmental circulate. within the grand yet beleaguered Everglades, which Douglas got here to appreciate is an enormous typical process that helps human lifestyles, she observed nature's providence.
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (Environmental History and the American South Ser.) by Jack E. Davis