{"product_id":"losing-it-all-to-sprawl-how-progress-ate-my-cracker-landscape-paperback","title":"Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBill Belleville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2006\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlorida Book Award, Florida Nonfiction, Bronze Medalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAl Burt Award for Florida Journalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLosing It All to Sprawl\u003c\/i\u003e is the poignant chronicle of award-winning nature writer Bill Belleville and how he came to understand and love his historic farmhouse and neighborhood, even as it was all wiped out from under him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs tractors and backhoes encircle Belleville and his community, displacing everything Belleville has called home for the past fifteen years, he tells a story that is much older--10,000 years older. The saga stretches back to the Timucua and the Mayaca living in harmony with Florida's environment; conquistadors in the \"land of flowers\"; turn-of-the-century tourists \"modernizing\" the state; the original Cracker families who lived in Belleville's farmhouse. The millennia-long transformation is starkly contrasted by the unbridled growth and development consuming Belleville's home and, ultimately, his very sense of place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLosing It All to Sprawl\u003c\/i\u003e, Belleville accounts for the impacts--social, political, natural, personal--that a community in the crosshairs of unsustainable growth must ultimately bear, but he also offers Floridians, and anyone facing the blight of urban confusion, the hope that can be found in the rediscovery and appreciation of our natural landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Belleville \u003c\/b\u003eis a veteran author and documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.7 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49641251799195,"sku":"9780813035024","price":22.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/4602\/1275\/files\/B7M007TaU09780813035024.webp?v=1790369486","url":"https:\/\/www.statesideqm.com\/products\/losing-it-all-to-sprawl-how-progress-ate-my-cracker-landscape-paperback","provider":"Stateside Quartermaster, Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}