| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.1

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Book Review

Paradise Lost: The Environmental History of Florida. Edited by Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xii + 420 pp. Illustrations, photographs, graphs, map, notes, index. $24.95
This collection of essays exploring Florida's environmental history is a much-needed edition for every environmental historian's shelves. As an environmentally singular state, Florida has undergone tremendous exploitation, most of which has taken place in the twentieth century. The sixteen essays of Paradise Lost? explore the range of this process through articles arranged in four sections: "Paradise Explored and Lost"; "Science, Technology, and Public Policy"; "Despoliation"; and "Conservation Environmentalism."	1
In the introduction editor Jack Davis explains the significance of Florida as paradise. As a place in which nature fantastically endows the physical setting, its significance rested first in its largesse that enabled the indigenous people to live without agriculture while retaining a sedentary existence; later fabled by the Spanish as a source of eternal youth, four hundred years later it attracted its first tourists and has attracted them ever since (p. 1). Its unique history, canon of writing, and fragile yet resilient environment make it worthy of environmental history study.	. . .

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