The Everglades: River of Grass (Rivers of America Series)

406 pp. Black-and-white woodcut vignettes by Robert Fink. One of the scarcest titles in the Rivers of America series. "The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers, for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians. The series spanned three publishers and thirty-seven years...The Everglades: River of Grass is a non-fiction book written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1947. Published the same year as the formal opening of Everglades National Park, the book was a call to attention about the degrading quality of life in the Everglades and continues to remain an influential book on nature conservation as well as a reference for information on South Florida, used as recently as 2007 by the New York Times."