Coming to Pass
Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change
Title Details
Pages: 304
Illustrations: 32 b&w photos
Trim size: 5.250in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 10/15/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5470-5
List Price: $25.95
Hardcover
Pub Date: 04/15/2015
ISBN: 9-780-8203-4765-3
List Price: $34.95
Web PDF
Pub Date: 04/15/2015
ISBN: 9-780-8203-4861-2
List Price: $25.95
Related Subjects
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines
Coming to Pass
Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change
A moving, personal look at a fragile landscape
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Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean’s memoir chronicles the uniquely beautiful coast as it once was, as it is now, and as it may be as the sea level rises.
For decades, Cerulean has kayaked, hiked, and counted birds on and around Dog, the St. Georges, and St. Vincent Islands with family and friends. She has collected scallops, snorkeled over a fallen lighthouse a mile offshore, and cast nets and fishing lines into cyclical runs of mullet and shrimp.
Like most people, she didn’t know how the islands had come to be or understand the large-scale change coming to the coast. With her husband, oceanographer Jeff Chanton, she studied the genesis of the coast and its inextricable link to the Apalachicola River. She interviewed scientists as they tracked and tallied magnificent and dwindling sea turtles, snowy white beach mice, and endangered plants. Illustrated with images from prizewinning nature photographer David Moynahan, Coming to Pass is the culmination of Cerulean’s explorations and a reflection of our spiritual relationship and responsibilities to the world that holds us.
—Jan DeBlieu, author of Wind, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing
—Jack E. Davis, author of An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
—Kati Schardl, Tallahassee Democrat
—Leslie K. Poole, Florida Historical Quarterly
—Southeasten Naturalist
Winner
Gold Medal, Florida Book Awards