Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape

Florida Book Award, Florida Nonfiction, Bronze Medalist

Al Burt Award for Florida Journalism

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 farmhouse and neighborhood, even as it was all wiped out from under him.

As tractors and backhoes encircle Belleville and his community, displacing everything Belleville has called home for the past fifteen years,...