Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage, learned to write journalism and fiction and drama, took on the fight for feminism and racial justice and conservation long before those causes became popular, and became a powerful force in ecopolitics.
The voice that emerges in this book is a voice from the past and a voice from the future, a voice of conviction and common sense with a sense of humor, a voice so many audiences have heard over the years — tough words in a genteel accent emerging from a tiny woman in a floppy hat — which has truly become the voice of the river.
Recommended Age | Adults |
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Author | Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
ISBN | 0910923949 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 1990 |
Publisher | Pineapple Press |
Language | English |