The Swamp Peddlers
Title | The Swamp Peddlers PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Vuic |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2021-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469663163 |
Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build. The result was Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Port Charlotte, Palm Coast, and Spring Hill, among many others—sprawling communities with no downtowns, little industry, and millions of residential lots. In The Swamp Peddlers, Jason Vuic tells the raucous tale of the sale of residential lots in postwar Florida. Initially selling cheap homes to retirees with disposable income, by the mid-1950s developers realized that they could make more money selling parcels of land on installment to their customers. These "swamp peddlers" completely transformed the landscape and demographics of Florida, devastating the state environmentally by felling forests, draining wetlands, digging canals, and chopping up at least one million acres into grid-like subdivisions crisscrossed by thousands of miles of roads. Generations of northerners moved to Florida cheaply, but at a huge price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; poorly-regulated development begat environmental destruction, culminating in the perfect storm of the 21st-century subprime mortgage crisis.
Swamp
Title | Swamp PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Wilson |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2017-11-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1780238916 |
Throughout history, swamps have been idealized and demonized, purged and protected. Today, they are simultaneously considered metaphorical places of evil, pestilence, and death, and treasured as diverse biological ecosystems teeming with life. Covering not only swamps and bogs but also marshes and wetlands, Swamp ventures into the cultural and ecological histories of these mysterious, mythologized, and misunderstood landscapes. Anthony Wilson takes readers into swamps across the globe, from the freshwater marshes of Botswana’s tremendous Okavango delta, to the notable swamps between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to the peat bogs in Russia, the British Isles, and Scandinavia, which have been used as energy sources for centuries. It explores ideas and representations of wetlands across centuries, cultures, and continents, considering legend and folklore, mythology, literature, film, and natural and cultural history. As it plumbs the murky depths of swamps from the distant past to an uncertain future, Swamps provides an engaging, accessible, informative, and lavishly illustrated journey into these fascinating landscapes.
Music of the Swamp
Title | Music of the Swamp PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Nordan |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1992-01-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1565127838 |
“This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —Southern Living Lewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin’s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: “The Delta is filled up with death”; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. An ALA Notable Book Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution
Title | The Swamp Fox of the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart H. Holbrook |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Generals |
ISBN | 1402757034 |
A biography of Francis Marion, the American general who organized a guerrilla band to fight the British in South Carolina during the Revolution.
Deep in the Swamp
Title | Deep in the Swamp PDF eBook |
Author | Donna M. Bateman |
Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1430129948 |
With the rhythm of the familiar poem "Over in the Meadow", this vibrant book introduces animals native to the Okefenokee Swamp, and highlights much of the flora and fauna that is recognizable in swamps and bayous elsewhere. Colorful, detailed illustrations and additional facts round out this appealing, rhyming exploration of a fascinating eco-system.
Donald Drains the Swamp
Title | Donald Drains the Swamp PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Metaxas |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1621579395 |
The cavemen need help. Their King has forgotten all about them, thanks to the swamp creatures who surround the castle. “They’re slippery!”76' " m ujmmmmmtk, “—and scaly!” “and SLIMY!" Donald is just a caveman. But when the people ask for his help, he realizes there’s only one way to save the kingdom: DRAIN… THE… SWAMP! Written by #1 national bestselling author and humorist Eric Metaxas and illustrated by award-winning artist Tim Raglin, Donald Drains the Swamp is a whimsical parable for the current political moment.
Magror, Ogre of the Swamps
Title | Magror, Ogre of the Swamps PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Blade |
Publisher | Orchard Books |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1408343029 |
The latest book in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls! Long before Tom has the title, his father Taladon is squire to the Master of the Beasts in Avantia. And when Evil Wizard Malvel opens a portal to Gorgonia, it is up to young Taladon to stop the kingdom from falling into wicked hands...