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Author Ogden, Laura.

Title Swamplife : people, gators, and mangroves entangled in the Everglades / Laura A. Ogden.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
2011

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations, maps
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Note "A Quadrant Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index.
Contents The Florida Everglades: an entangled landscape -- The queen of the Everglades -- Landscape ethnography and the politics of nature -- The notorious Ashley gang -- Earth, fire, and flesh: territorial refrains -- The theatrics of Everglades outlaws -- The travels of snakes, mangroves, and men -- The gang vanishes into the mysterious swamp -- Searching for paradise in the Florida Everglades -- The story doesn't end with the ambush on the Sebastian River bridge -- Alligator conservation, commodities, and tactics of subversion.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Human ecology -- Florida -- Everglades National Park.
Mangrove ecology -- Florida -- Everglades National Park.
Everglades National Park (Fla.) -- Social conditions.
Everglades National Park (Fla.) -- Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ogden, Laura. Swamplife : people, gators, and mangroves entangled in the Everglades. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011] xiv, 185 pages ; 23 cm 9780816670277 (OCoLC)ocn687677343 (DLC)10806465
ISBN 9780816670260 (hc : alk. paper)
0816670269 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816670277 (pb : alk. paper)
0816670277 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816677023 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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