Salvaging the Real Florida
eBook - ePub

Salvaging the Real Florida

Lost and Found in the State of Dreams

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Salvaging the Real Florida

Lost and Found in the State of Dreams

About this book

Modern life has a tendency to trap people in cubicles, cars, and cookie-cutter suburbs. Thankfully, someone comes along now and then to remind us of the beauty that presents itself when we turn off the information feeds and turn away from the daily grind.

Bill Belleville's enchanting Salvaging the Real Florida invites readers to rediscover treasures hidden in plain sight. Join Belleville as he paddles a glowing lagoon, slogs through a swamp, explores a spring cave, dives a "literary" shipwreck, and pays a visit to the colorful historic district of an old riverboat town. Journey with him in search of the apple snail, the black bear, a rare cave-dwelling shrimp, and more. Everywhere he goes, Belleville finds beauty, intrigue, and, more often than not, a legacy in peril.

Following in the tradition of John Muir, William Bartram, and Henry David Thoreau, Belleville forges intimate connections with his surroundings. Like the works of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Archie Carr, his evocative stories carry an urgent and important call to preserve what is left of the natural world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Fire, Water, Friendship in the Night
  8. 2. The Apple Snail: The Ecology of Mollusk Zen
  9. 3. Welcome to Midge World
  10. 4. A Florida Swamp: In with the Ixia
  11. 5. Key Largo: Where Bogie Meets Lewis Carroll
  12. 6. Roadside Wildlife: Galloping with the Mastodons
  13. 7. Florida Rivers: A Confluence of Alchemy
  14. 8. B. B. King & Beluthahatchee in St. Augustine
  15. 9. Inside a Florida Spring without a GPS
  16. 10. What the Road to Nowhere Reveals
  17. 11. Why you Should Care about a Little Cabin in the Woods
  18. 12. Cedar Key: Scuttling with the Mermaids
  19. 13. Ft. Drum Creek: Monasteries and Baboons in the Map
  20. 14. Florida Fantasyland: Bella Foresta
  21. 15. Following the Unseen
  22. 16. A Tropical Storm is Coming: Another Noir Day in Paradise
  23. 17. A Mythic Feast: Lobster on the Swanee
  24. 18. So you Want to be a Nature Writer?
  25. 19. An Aquatic Burden of Dreams: Lake Woodruff
  26. 20. Underneath where the River Used to Be
  27. 21. Cayo Hueso: Burrowing into the Core
  28. 22. What if the Shaman is a Snail?
  29. 23. The Sand Dollar: A Measure of Wealth
  30. 24. The Gators are Coming! So are the Angry Squirrels!
  31. 25. Weathering the Tides, Just a Bit Upstream
  32. 26. It's a Jungle Out There
  33. 27. A River Parchment, Once Read
  34. 28. A Yearning for Stories to Lead the Way
  35. 29. Silver Springs: A Troglodytic Myth, Realized
  36. 30. What the House Remembers
  37. 31. What's Really in the White Space
  38. 32. Retracing Art through Memory
  39. 33. An Afternoon Treasure Hunt
  40. 34. Doe Lake: A Movie of Nostalgia
  41. 35. The Wekiva: Between the Water & the Sky
  42. 36. Be Thankful for the Dragons
  43. 37. My Favorite Florida Books
  44. 38. Salvaging a Literary Memory: Naturalism is Born off the Florida Coast
  45. 39. A Morning on the Lake of the Hololo
  46. 40. On Visiting Jody in the Big Scrub
  47. 41. Riding the Karst: From Shoal to Swamp and then Some
  48. 42. Riverkeeping with Tree
  49. 43. Spring Comes to Florida: Not in a Bang, but in a Tiny Indolent Blossom
  50. 44. A Memory Shard: Under the Sea
  51. 45. Coontie Magic: Reading the Message in the Relic
  52. 46. Mothers Arms: Sinking into Gator Time
  53. 47. Epilogue: A Young Boy and why he Walks
  54. Acknowledgments
  55. About the Author