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Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness

Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness

Furman, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Florida Humanities Partnership Publications

Biographies GeneralNature WritingRegional: South

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0813080967
ISBN13: 9780813080963
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Mar 18 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Through stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and change

Florida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida Nonfiction

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award

Wings and talons clatter against a windowpane. Foxes den under a deck. Pines stand in quarter-acre lots, recalling a vanished forest. In this book, Andrew Furman explores touchpoints between his everyday suburban life and the environment in South Florida, contemplating his place in a subtropical landscape stretching from the Everglades to the warm Atlantic coast. Transportive vignettes of encounters in the natural world blend with ordinary, all-too-relatable stories of home and family life in these chapters. Puzzled and fascinated by the plants and animals he meets while continually preoccupied by busy domestic routines, Furman illustrates the beauty of his suburban wilderness. He also reckons with changes and threats to the surrounding landscape. How, he asks, should humans go about living in what is simultaneously one of the most overdeveloped and most naturally beautiful states in the country?

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