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I’ve since read a lot of valid criticism about the book, so unfortunately best to treat this a bit more as entertainment / messy theorizing than purely factual. Still, I absolutely loved this when I read it and it put me on a path to read all sorts of history, evolutionary biology, and linguistics books.
A detailed history of the settlement and development of south Florida, focusing on the environment impact on the Everglades. Before this book, I didn’t have a great notion of just how young most of Florida is, it was a sparsely populated backwater up until recently (now it’s a highly-populous backwater).
