It looked like the world's largest and grassiest puddle, or the flattest and wettest meadow, or the widest and slowest-moving stream. In "The Swamp," Grunwald (2006) has established a descriptive view of the Everglades which points to them as a “wild and lonely” place (9), neither completely water nor completely land, and describes the area in evocative terms which sets the tone for the rest of the book, which seems to establish a perspective from the point of view of the land itself, rather than the various people who have come and gone from the region. How were the Everglades viewed in Florida at the beginning of the twentieth century? What factors helped shape those views? Was the area seen as an asset or as a barrier to progress? Why? What solutions were proposed?
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