The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands (Contemporary Poetry) - Tapa dura

The contributors to this volume write about their affection for Florida's natural beauty and their disaffection with the developments that threaten it. They evoke a state thick with pinewoods, alligators and palmetto scrub; ribboned by miles of coast and dune; and blessed with lakes and rivers.

Jeff Ripple, natural history writer and photographer, is the author of five books of interpretive natural history, including Sea Turtles, Florida--The Natural Wonders, and Southwest Florida's Wetland Wilderness: Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islands (UPF, 1996). He lives in Gainesville, Florida.Susan Cerulean, writer and biologist, is co-author of Florida Wildlife Viewing Guide. In 1997, the Governor's Council for a Sustainable Florida honored her with an Individual Environmental Educator Award. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.