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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century de Jack E. Davis

An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century: Environmental History and the American South

Autor Jack E. Davis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2011

Vezi toate premiile Carte premiată

Florida Book Award (2009)

Imaginați-vă o femeie la pragul a opt decenii de viață, o vârstă la care mulți caută liniștea, pornind în schimb un război neobosit împotriva „negustorilor de creștere” care doreau să asfalteze inima sălbatică a Floridei. Relația dintre Jack E. Davis și Marjory Stoneman Douglas este una de o profunzime rară; biograful nu doar că îi documentează pașii, ci îi reconstruiește crezul intelectual, înțelegând că lupta ei pentru Everglades a fost, de fapt, o luptă pentru supraviețuirea sistemului uman. Notăm cu interes cum Davis reușește să spargă mitul activistei monolitice, dezvăluind o personalitate polivalentă: sufragetă, jurnalistă și scriitoare de talent, care a atins vârsta de 108 ani fără a-și pierde vigoarea civică.

Putem afirma că această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție naturală în opera lui Jack E. Davis. Dacă în The Bald Eagle autorul explora simbolismul natural în cultura americană, în An Everglades Providence el ancorează istoria mediului în biografia umană, oferind o perspectivă mult mai intimă și politizată. Cine a apreciat portretul din Marjory's River of Grass va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă unui context mult mai vast, care depășește sfera literaturii pentru copii pentru a deveni o cronică densă a secolului ecologist american. Merită menționat că ritmul narațiunii este unul cinematic, pendulând între saloanele literare ale începutului de secol și mlaștinile amenințate de buldozere. Tonul este echilibrat, evitând hagiografia în favoarea unei analize riguroase a modului în care o singură voce poate schimba destinul unui întreg ecosistem.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780820337791
ISBN-10: 082033779X
Pagini: 758
Dimensiuni: 147 x 224 x 51 mm
Greutate: 1.25 kg
Editura: University of Georgia Press
Seria Environmental History and the American South

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă cum se construiește o mișcare ecologistă de succes. Cititorul va descoperi povestea fascinantă a unei femei care s-a reinventat la 79 de ani, demonstrând că influența politică și socială nu are termen de expirare. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de istorie americană și biografie politică, oferind un model de reziliență și viziune pe termen lung asupra protejării naturii.

Despre autor

Jack E. Davis este un autor și istoric recunoscut, a cărui operă pendulează între ilustrația de carte pentru copii și cercetarea academică de prestigiu. Este autorul unor lucrări de referință precum The Bald Eagle și The Wilder Heart of Florida, fiind distins cu premiul Pulitzer pentru istorie (pentru lucrarea „The Gulf”). Expertiza sa în istoria mediului din sudul Statelor Unite îi permite să abordeze biografia lui Marjory Stoneman Douglas nu doar ca pe o simplă înșiruire de date, ci ca pe o analiză complexă a intersecției dintre cultură, politică și ecologie în Florida secolului XX.

Recenzii

"Davis has vividly captured the Marjory Stoneman Douglas I knew--a feisty, funny, indomitable American original. With erudition and eloquence he carries the reader along in a gripping story of the century-long struggle to save the Everglades. And he tells us that Marjory would surely want us to know that the struggle is far from over. This book inspires us to carry on her work."--Diana Chapman Walsh, president of Wellesley College, 1993-2007
"I congratulate Davis for his exceptional book on the life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. More than just a biography, the book provides an excellent history of the modern environmental movement. I am certain that all who read it will be not only inspired by the dynamic, pivotal, and courageous life and work of Marjory Stoneman Douglas but also reminded of how terribly essential her efforts to protect the Florida Everglades and the environment remain."--Senator Bob Graham
"A compelling biography of one of the twentieth century's giants in American conservation and letters. Davis does for Marjory Stoneman Douglas what Linda Lear did for Rachel Carson and Farley Mowat did for Dian Fossey. He gives us the textures of a principled woman, sometimes troubled, sometimes ambitious, always dedicated to an unselfish goal. Davis does justice to both Douglas's life and the incipient days of America's environmental awakening."--Ted Levin, author of "Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades"
"Davis never met Douglas, but he has given her the serious biography she deserves, capturing her cantankerous personality and brilliant mind, while at the same time providing the historical context necessary to fully appreciate her amazing life. It's a tour de force."--"St. Petersburg Times"
"Paints an affectionate portrait of the quirky Douglas."--"Orion Magazine"
"An impressive look at America during Douglas's lifetime and the growth of America's environmental movement. This outstanding volume is essential for environmental and history collections."--"Library Journal"
""An Everglades Providence" hardly knocks Douglas off the pedestal she properly occupies in Florida history. But this ambitious, scrupulously thorough biography extends credit to the many other people who helped put her there. Without diminishing Douglas' accomplishments, Davis details her critical collaborations with mentors, scientists, activists, journalists and friends who influenced her."--"Miami Herald"
"A brilliant biography, "An Everglades Providence" completes the portrait of one of the most important environmental figures of the twentieth century. Environmentalists claim Marjory Stoneman Douglas as theirs, but she was not a full-time activist until age 79. Davis fills in the picture with writing as clever and fluid as his subject's and with meticulous research that will have readers asking, 'How'd he find that?' His book is also another life story: that of South Florida's environment and its devastating alteration. A must-read for citizens and decisionmakers, who can choose to keep altering nature or heed Douglas and live in its balance."--Cynthia Barnett, author of "Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S."

Descriere

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No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic "The Everglades: River of Grass" had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve and boundless energy of this implacable elder won the hearts of an admiring public while confounding her opponents--growth merchants intent on having their way with the Everglades. Douglas's efforts ultimately earned her a place among a mere handful of individuals honored as a namesake of a national wilderness area. In the first comprehensive biography of Douglas, Jack E. Davis explores the 108-year life of this compelling woman. Douglas was more than an environmental activist. She was a suffragist, a lifetime feminist and supporter of the ERA, a champion of social justice, and an author of diverse literary talent. She came of age literally and professionally during the American environmental century, the century in which Americans mobilized an unprecedented popular movement to counter the equally unprecedented liberties they had taken in exploiting, polluting, and destroying the natural world.
The Everglades were a living barometer of America's often tentative shift toward greater environmental responsibility. Reconstructing this larger picture, Davis recounts the shifts in Douglas's own life and her instrumental role in four important developments that contributed to Everglades protection: the making of a positive wetland image, the creation of a national park, the expanding influence of ecological science, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. In the grand but beleaguered Everglades, which Douglas came to understand is a vast natural system that supports human life, she saw nature's providence.

Notă biografică

JACK E. DAVIS is an associate professor of history at the University of Florida. He is editor of The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and coeditor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida.

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