Alligator Crossing by Trudy Nicholson

Alligator Crossing by Trudy Nicholson

Henry Bunks lives in crowded Miami in the 1950s. A nearby canal -- an entrance to what will become the Florida Everglades -- provides respite from his chaotic life in an uncaring family. Henry meets and befriends an alligator hunter and stows away on his boat. The hunter, an enigmatic character, is at once an outlaw and a father figure to Henry. In the watery wilderness, the man and boy meet a wildlife photographer, a botanist, and a park ranger, and Henry is thrust into a race to save a human life. First published in 1959, this story combines great adventure with a boy's first experience of adults who are neither totally bad nor totally noble. Alligator Crossing is a rediscovered classic by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known as the Savior of the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a journalist and environmentalist who helped defend the Florida Everglades. Who Was Marjory Stoneman Douglas? Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a journalist and a pioneering environmentalist who helped defend the Florida Everglades. As a young woman, she was a writer and editor at the Miami Herald, which her father helped to establish in 1910. She became known for work in nature conservancy after her 1947 book Everglades: River of Grass was published, but it was many years later, in 1969 at age 79, when she founded the Friends of the Everglades. She was not only an advocate for the environment but also for women's right to vote and for racial equality. In 1993, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Douglas died on May 14, 1998 at the age of 108.

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ISBN 13	9781571316448
ISBN 10	1571316442
Title	Alligator Crossing
Author	Trudy Nicholson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Milkweed Editions
Year published	2003-02-28
Number of pages	192
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