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Title: Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Evergaldes by Rob Storter, Betty Savidge Briggs ISBN: 0-8203-2066-8 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: they lived here before the park
Comment: capt. rob storter never owned a camera, so when he wasn't fishing or working on a boat he drew or painted pictures and wrote a note netx to it telling about the scene. this book was compiled with those photo's and drawings by my friend betty briggs savage, the granddaughter of capt. rob. it is a testament to hardships of the mullet fishermen, local hunters and the women that lived in a time before manatee and wake zones fishing & hunting permits and the park put an end to a much better way of life. is a look at south florida before it was all gone and told by a man that lived it. thank's robert
Rating: 5
Summary: Knowing Captain Rob
Comment: I have not had the opportunity to meet Peter Mathiessen, but I could relate to his mention of sitting and listening to Captain Rob's tales, because I, too, have had that privilege. The book, Cracker in the Glade, is a collection of his ledger and it is written in his conversational tone. It is a recount of how Captain Rob saw the evolution of the growth in population in south Florida and the consequential degredation of the environment as he knew it. He is not judgmental in his description, rather it is matter of fact. Just as he viewed the hardships of living in Florida in the early 1900's as matter of fact. The reader is left with the sense that he knows the history of the Collier County area, and the inhabitants that endured the hardships together. While they were separate families with their own trials, they were one as a family of pioneers in area that was as rife with dangers as it was beautiful in the pristene sense of the tropical paradise. Betty Briggs is to be complimented for her sharing of her grandfather with the rest of us, so that we, too can know the adventures and evolution of this part of the Everglades.
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Title: Tales of Old Florida by Frank Oppel ISBN: 1555212255 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Tropic of Cracker by Al Burt ISBN: 0813016959 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith ISBN: 1561641162 Publisher: Pineapple Press (FL) Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Totch: A Life in the Everglades by Loren G. "Totch" Brown ISBN: 0813012287 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
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Title: Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0375701818 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 11 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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