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978-0-89587-201-2
0-89587-201-3
$13.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8"
258 pages
maps, pen-and-ink drawings, index
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This is both a
guide to great hiking places and
a good rainy-day book. You can read it at home
and take it with you for a walk.--Southern Living
Nature lovers
needn't be discouraged by Florida's population boom. As Orange
Blossom Trails testifies, hikers can still find solitude a hundred
yards from most trailheads in the state. Whether they walk the abandoned
Seven-Mile Bridge to perfect Pigeon Key, watch birds feeding in the
Indian River at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge as the space
shuttle rises in the distance, observe fish, turtles, deer, birds, and
manatees congregating at Manatee Springs, or scour Torreya State Park in
search of a tree so rare that only 1,500 specimens survive in the wild,
visitors may discover their own vision of Florida's wild side in the 16
walks included here. Maps and travel information combine with Phillip
Manning's rich essays to make this both a practical guidebook and a
memorable read.
about the author
Phillip Manning's writing has appeared in Field & Stream,
the Washington Post, and numerous other publications. The author
and editor of the newsletter Walker's World, Manning is also the
author of Afoot in
the South, Palmetto Journal,
and Islands of Hope, winner of
the 1999 National Outdoor Book Award in Nature & Environment.
Manning holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He lives in
Chapel Hill with his wife, Diane, the illustrator of several of his
books.
also by Phillip Manning:
Afoot
in the South:
Walks in the Natural Areas of North Carolina
Palmetto Journal:
Walks in the Natural Areas of South Carolina
Islands
of Hope:
Lessons from North America's
Great Wildlife Refuges |
