Jack E. Davis on An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Abby Sallenger on Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World and Ian Shive on Our National Parks: An American Landscape
Our Land is Your Land
Saturday, Nov. 14, 5:00 p.m., Room 7128 (Building 7, 1st Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Jack E. Davis
Jack E. Davis’ An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century is “more than a biography,” says Sen. Bob Graham, it’s also “an excellent history of the modern environmental movement.” An associate professor of history at the University of Florida, Davis is editor of The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and co-editor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida.
Abby Sallenger
Abby Sallenger, author of Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World (Public Affairs), is the former chief scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Center for Coastal Geology. He presently leads the USGS Storm Impact research group, investigating how the coast changes during extreme storms, such as hurricanes Isabel, Ivan, Katrina, and Ike. He and his wife live in Florida.
Ian Shive
Ian Shive is an environmental and conservation photographer, author and film producer. His work has appeared in Time, U.S. News & World Report and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Our National Parks: An American Landscape (Palace), a collection of more than 200 photographs.
Schedule
| Saturday, Nov. 14, 5:00 p.m. |
Free |
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 7128 (Building 7, 1st Floor)
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