‘Crossing the wake’ from Creekshed 2025.
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Forty years ago, historian Jack E. Davis water skied St. Pete’s polluted lake Lake Maggiore
‘Crossing the wake’ from Creekshed 2025.
Jack Davis
A professor of environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida, who previously taught at Eckerd College, Jack E. Davis grew up in Pinellas County. He is the author or editor of several books, including, Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida (with Ray Arsenault); and An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, winner of the 2009 Florida Book Award. His latest, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, named a New York Times Notable Book and an NPR Great Read, received the Kirkus Prize for best nonfiction of 2017. The Wall Street Journal called The Gulf a "wide-ranging, well-told story, by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring, and chilling." Davis, who lives on future Gulf-front property in Gainesville, is working on a new book, Bird of Paradox: How the Bald Eagle Saved the Soul of America.
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Books Issue 2017: Writing down the state: Florida’s environmental saga, in books that span centuries
Stories of our state’s natural resources, as chosen by the prize-winning author of “Gulf.”