Salvaging the Real Florida: Lost and Found in the State of Dreams

A ramble through the wild backyard of Florida

"Bill Belleville writes gorgeously and straight from the heart."—Carl Hiaasen, reviewing Losing It All to Sprawl

"Get off the interstate, cast a cold eye on the strip mall, eschew the theme park, and come with Bill Belleville to the green heart of the real Florida. He takes you to the secret places in the deep woods, the holy swamps, the springs blue as a sapphire and cold as a January midnight. He is our William Bartram, the poet of Florida's f...