Alligators : prehistoric presence in the American landscape / Martha A. Strawn ; with essays by LeRoy Overstreet, Jane Gibson, J. Whitfield Gibbons.

Author
Strawn, Martha [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baltimore, Md : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1997.
Description
227 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

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    Series
    Creating the North American landscape [More in this series]
    Summary note
    During the past nine years, photographer Martha Strawn has taken more than 40,000 photographs of the alligator - in freshwater marshes and swamps, lakes and ponds, rivers, bayous, brackish estuaries, and saltwater coastal marshes and backwaters, from Texas to North Carolina. Alligators, Prehistoric Presence in the American Landscape offers a selection of 151 of Strawn's photographs in a unique book that combines art, science, history, folklore, land ethics, and literature to tell the story of America's southern landscape and one of its most evocative creatures. Strawn covers such topics as mating and reproduction, hunting, loss of habitat, resource management, and the commercial mean and skin industries. Three personal essays bring home the relationship between alligators and humans: "Memories of Gator Hunts," by alligator hunter LeRoy Overstreet; "Living by the Wetlands," by Jane Gibson, a conservation anthropologist; and "Living with Alligators," by ecologist J. Whitfield Gibbons. These stories give voice to the people - hunters, alligator farmers, meat and skin processors, scientists, and wildlife managers - who spend their days and nights with this noble member of the order Crocodilia.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index.
    Contents
    • Alligators in the American Landscape
    • Mysterious Crocodilia
    • Wetlands and Deepwaters
    • Alligator Management
    • Destruction
    • Animals and Habitat
    • Eyeshine
    • Memories of Gator Hunts / LeRoy Overstreet
    • The Hunt
    • The Catch
    • The Weigh-in
    • Products
    • Mating
    • Baby Gators
    • Resource Management
    • Effects of Human Population
    • "Water" / Gill Holland
    • Pollution
    • Fire and Fertility
    • Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
    • "The Alligator and the Hunter"
    • The Land
    • "Marsh" / Kevin Bezner
    • The Land as Habitat
    • Alligator Research
    • Ranching and Farming
    • Living by the Wetlands / Jane Gibson
    • Processing
    • Alligator
    • "Big Alligator" / James E. Billie
    • A Different Way
    • "Fire in the Swamp"
    • Prehistoric Presence
    • "Guessing the Alligators at the Charles Towne Landing" / Gill Holland
    • Mutuality
    • Deepwaters
    • "Florida" / Elizabeth Bishop
    • Living with Alligators / J. Whitfield Gibbons
    • Four Views of the Everglades
    • Blackwater
    • "Eyeshine" / Martha A. Strawn
    • "Meditation" / Diane Ackerman
    • Wetlands
    • Coda.
    ISBN
    • 0801852897
    • 9780801852893
    LCCN
    96013762
    OCLC
    34409952
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