9780813029283 - Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape di Belleville, Bill (10 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Number line in the work reads as follows: 11 10 09 08 07 06 6 5 4 3 2 1. 191 pages, 11 chapters, and a bibliography. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Inside the back cover a sticker of some sort apparently has been removed and there is a slight trace of discoloration at that spot. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. A quite nice copy available for immediate shipment.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful copy in like dust jacket. Signed by author on the title page. 199 pages with photographs. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket has minimal wear, binding sound, internally clean. Losing It All to Sprawl is the poignant chronicle of award-winning nature writer Bill Belleville and how he came to understand and love his historic Cracker farmhouse and "relic" neighborhood in central Florida, even as it was all wiped out from under him. Belleville's narrative is eloquent, informed, and impassioned, a saga in which tractors and backhoes trample through the woods next to his home in order to build the backbone of Florida sprawl--the mall.As heavy machinery encircles Belleville and his community--the noise growing louder and closer, displacing everything Belleville has called home for the past fifteen years--he tells a story that is much older, 10,000 years older. The story stretches back to the Timucua and the Mayaca living in harmony with Florida's environment; the conquistadors who expected much from, but also feared, this "land of flowers"; the turn-of-the-century tourists "modernizing" and "climatizing" the state; the original Cracker families who lived in Belleville's farmhouse. In stark contrast to this millennia-long transformation is the whiplash of unbridled growth and development that threatens the nearby wilderness of the Wekiva River system, consuming Belleville's home and, ultimately, his very sense of place.In Florida, one of the nation's fastest growing states (and where local and state governments encourage growth), balancing use with preservation is an uphill battle. Sprawl spreads into the countryside, consuming not just natural lands but Old Florida neighborhoods and their unique history. In Losing It All to Sprawl, Belleville accounts for the impacts--social, political, natural, personal--that a community in the crosshairs of unsustainable growth ultimately must bear, but he also offers Floridians, and anyone facing the blight of urban confusion, the hope that can be found in the rediscovery and appreciation of the natural landscape.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 199 pp. Spine, corners bumped. Jacket has edgewear. An insightful look at one man's small piece of a vanishing paradise. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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