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Crackers in the glade : life and times in the old Everglades

Title
Crackers in the glade : life and times in the old Everglades / by Rob Storter ; edited and compiled by Betty Savidge Briggs ; foreword by Peter Matthiessen.
Author
Storter, Rob, 1894-1987.
Publication
Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors
Briggs, Betty Savidge, 1946-
Description
xxiv, 127 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 23 x 27 cm
Summary
  • "Crackers in the Glade is an account of bygone days in the Everglades. The largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the United States, the Everglades holds a unique place among all the world's wetlands. Through his writings and illustrations, fisherman, guide, and self-taught artist Rob Storter transports us to the remote, half-wild frontier of southwest Florida in the early part of the twentieth century.
  • There, the events of a day could range from a hurricane to a face-to-face encounter with a panther to the arrival of the latest packet from Key West.".
  • "As Storter recalls his travels through the great swamp and its estuaries, he imparts an old-timer's grasp of the fantastic array of plant and animal life the Everglades once supported. Looking back over a life closely linked to the water, he chronicles how mechanized methods eclipsed the more sustainable approach of fishing as the livelihood of locals who were attuned to natural cycles and worked by necessity on a small scale.
  • Crackers in the Glade is also a story of family and community, of daily joys and setbacks."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Contents
1. Early Days in the Everglades -- 2. Daily Life and Commerce -- 3. Family and Friends -- 4. Faith and Religion -- 5. Hard Times -- 6. Hunting, Fishing, and Nature -- 7. Final Days.
ISBN
0820320668 (alk. paper)
LCCN
98041157
OCLC
  • ocm39695840
  • SCSB-3862160
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries