Marjorie Harris Carr
Subtitle: defender of Florida's environment
By: Peggy Macdonald
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780813049359
Subjects: Environmentalism; Women and the environment; Women environmentalists; Environmental conditions; Biography; History
Description: This is the first full-length biography of Marjorie Carr, arguably one of Florida's most influential environmental activists, who dedicated her life to the study of science and conserving Florida's wildlife and wild places.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Marjorie Harris Carr's girlhood: a young naturalist growing up in Florida; title: Blending science and marriage in the New Deal era; title: Honduras in the 1940s: a naturalist's paradise; title: Marjorie Harris Carr's early conservation career; title: Protecting paradise: Marjorie Harris Carr launches the campaign to save the Ocklawaha River; title: Florida Defenders of the Environment and the death of the Cross Florida Barge Canal.