everglades (fla.)

The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.

Text and photographs explore the natural wonders of the Florida Everglades.

Describes the successful efforts of concerned citizens to stop construction of a jetport that would have destroyed the Florida Everglades.

Alec Ramsay's life is changed after he spends a terrifying night lost in the Florida Everglades with a deranged Frenchman who is helping him search for the runaway black stallion.

In the early 1960s eight-year-old Kiki leaves Cuba to escape the Castro regime and tries to adjust in two very different foster homes in Florida, first with a poor family in the Everglades and then with a wealthy family in Miami.

Presents an introduction to the Everglades, the largest marsh in the United States, showing where it is, tracing the geologic and cultural history of the marsh, and looking at life in the Everglades.

In these ten glittering stories, Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolflike girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.

Ex-cop Max Freeman, having chosen a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades after killing a twelve-year-old in self-defense, is drawn back into the world of violence when he discovers the corpse of a child and must find the killer in order to clear himself of suspicion.

Introduce the Everglades, describing its location, animal and plant life that live there, and how they are changing in today's world.

Photographs and text give an account of a trip into the Everglades.