By Laura A. Ogden

ISBN-10: 0816670269

ISBN-13: 9780816670260

ISBN-10: 0816670277

ISBN-13: 9780816670277

Little in North the US is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a panorama of scary reptiles, unique crops in great quantity, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving warmth. And but, even from the early days of taming the desolate tract with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been thought of fragile, special, and wanting restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters within the Everglades, Laura A. Ogden explores the lives and labors of individuals, animals, and crops during this such a lot soft and tenacious ecosystem.

Today, the numerous visions of the Everglades—protectionist, ecological, advertisement, historical—have turn into a tangled internet of contradictory practices and politics for conservation and for improvement. but inside of this entanglement, where of individuals is still hugely ambivalent. it's the function of individuals within the Everglades that pursuits Ogden, as she seeks to reclaim the landscape’s lengthy background as a spot of human job and, in doing so, observe what it ability to be human via altering kinfolk with different animals and flowers.

Ogden tells this tale during the lives of negative rural whites, gladesmen, epitomized in stories of the Everglades’ most renowned outlaws, the Ashley Gang. With such legends and lore on one aspect, and oversized efforts at drainage and improvement at the different, Swamplife moves a unprecedented stability, providing a special perception into the hidden lifetime of the Everglades—and into how an appreciation of oppositional tradition and social category operates in our realizing of wasteland within the United States.

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