ISBN: 978-1-8929-3730-8
Order Number: GOV398
Price: $14.95

For all practical purposes, naturalists and unenlightened civilians dwell on different planets. Kanapaha Botanical Gardens director Don Goodman was born a hard-wired naturalist and shares the secrets of this unique perspective in tales of a lifetime of interactions with animals and plants… from the magical boyhood incident when two snake eggs hatched in his hand to the loss of his right arm to a horrifying attack by a giant alligator.

Thrown into the mix are laugh-out-loud stories of student misadventures, colorful eccentricities, British soldiers cooking up a batch of psychotropic greens at Jamestown and a float trip down Florida’s grand Ichetucknee River that became `the Donner Party afloat.` If you don't know bastard toadflax from devil’s dung, this is the book for you!

6 x 9", 222 pages, paperback, b&w photos.