Marjorie Harris Carr : defender of Florida's environment
Title:
Marjorie Harris Carr : defender of Florida's environment
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Publication Information:
Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2014].
Physical Description:
258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
Contents:
Marjorie Harris Carr's girlhood: a young naturalist growing up in Florida -- Blending science and marriage in the New Deal era -- Honduras in the 1940s: a naturalist's paradise -- Marjorie Harris Carr's early conservation career -- Protecting paradise: Marjorie Harris Carr launches the campaign to save the Ocklawaha River -- Florida Defenders of the Environment and the death of the Cross Florida Barge Canal.
Abstract:
This is the first full-length biography of Marjorie Carr, arguably one of Florida's most influential environmental activists, who dedicated her life to the study of science and conserving Florida's wildlife and wild places.
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