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Ditch of dreams : the Cross Florida Barge Canal and the struggle for Florida's future / Steven Noll and David Tegeder ; foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noll, Steven.
- Series:
- Florida history and culture series
- The Florida history and culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canals--Florida--Design and construction--History.
- Canals.
- Environmentalism.
- History.
- Environmental conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway (Fla.)--History.
- Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway (Fla.).
- Florida--Economic conditions.
- Florida.
- Oklawaha River (Fla.)--Environmental conditions.
- Oklawaha River (Fla.).
- Florida--Environmental conditions.
- Environmentalism--Florida--History.
- Carr, Marjorie Harris.
- Florida--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Politics and government.
- Florida--Politics and government--1951-.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
- Contents:
- Surveys and steamboats
- Boom or boondoggle?
- The dream deferred
- Groundbreaking, breaking ground
- New visions, new strategies
- Floating logs, dying trees, and clogging weeds
- Death of a dream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813034065
- 081303406X
- OCLC:
- 318874482
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