Archie Carr was an eminent naturalist, writer and conservationist. Throughout his life he wrote on many aspects of natural history, including the Florida area, where he lived for 50 years. This collection of his essays illuminates the flora, fauna and humans that have inhabited Florida.

Product Description: From reviews of the first edition"The journey . . . is really through Archie Carr's mind, where it is easy to move from Africa to Florida or Central America, or from mechanical dredges to prehistoric monsters. The result is always interesting because Mr...read more

Product Description: "Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr’s The Windward Road."--Peter Matthiessen  "Archie Carr shows that he can write about people and forests engagingly and accurately without recourse to fake adventures or gringo condescension...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)