{"product_id":"swamp-screamer-at-large-with-the-florida-panther-9780813015606","title":"Swamp Screamer: At Large with the Florida Panther","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Fergus\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Animals - Wildlife\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whether the panther survives or perishes, Fergus has written a book that does it full justice. His narrative is lively and full of anecdotes, some of them eye-openers.\"--Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As good as, or better than, any book I've read in years about the awful and willful ignorance of homo sapiens about the living world.\"--Farley Mowat, author of \u003ci\u003eNever Cry Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Charles Fergus [is] a diligent reporter and straightforward writer. . . . You will enjoy [his] descriptions of forays into panther territory.\"--Kathleen Krog, \u003ci\u003eMiami Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Florida panther is an endangered species, its way of life altered by the spread of suburban culture across the state. In \u003ci\u003eSwamp Screamer\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Fergus tracks the fifty or so panthers that survive in Florida, vividly describing the people trying to save these remarkable creatures--including wildlife biologists trying to preserve panther habitat and radical animal lovers who regard the panther as a symbol of their crusade on behalf of nature. \u003ci\u003eSwamp Screamer\u003c\/i\u003e is a surprising and often comic look at the wildlife movement today; it is also an evocative history of the vanishing wilds of Florida and a deeply affecting portrait of the panthers themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Fergus has written six books, including the novel\u003ci\u003e Shadow Catcher; \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of essays\u003ci\u003e, The Wingless Crow; \u003c\/i\u003eand a memoir\u003ci\u003e, A Rough-Shooting Dog. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in a stone house that he built himself on a mountainside in central Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409806811287,"sku":"9780813015606","price":1314.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813015606.webp?v=1767311909","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/swamp-screamer-at-large-with-the-florida-panther-9780813015606","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}