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The Living Dock
By Jack Rudloe
Size 6" x 9", 264 pages, paperback, color & line illustrations by Walter
Inglis Anderson, index.
ISBN 0-8200-1206-8, $14.95
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here to read an excerpt
Sometimes, a dock isn't just a dock, it's a habitat. In
the tiny fishing community of Panacea, the author's floating dock nurtures
an abundance of marine life. Crabs, worms, mollusks and algae make their
home there, feeding fish and other creatures higher up the food chain.
These also feed author Jack Rudloe's business, Gulf Specimen Marine Lab,
which supplies specimens to research and teaching institutions: marine
fauna from his dock, fo nearby mud flats and beaches, and netted offshore
from his little shrimp boat Penaeus. This entertaining and
educational book looks at the life histories of some of these creatures
and recounts Rudloe's experiences in collecting them, in the process
examining man's relationship with the natural world.
About the Author
Jack Rudloe is the founder of
Gulf Specimen
Marine Laboratory, located in the Panhandle town of Panacea, Florida.
Gulf Specimen is a unique nonprofit environmental education institute and
marine biological-supply company. It collects and ships all manner of sea
creatures to aquaria and research centers worldwide, provides an extensive
program of coastal environmental education and teacher workshops for
regional schools, and conducts research on non-breeding habitat
requirements of the critically endangered Atlantic ridley sea turtle. Jack
and his wife, Anne Rudloe, have devoted their careers to educating the
public, legislators, congressmen, the media, schoolchildren, and whoever
else would listen, about the spectacular beauty and need for conservation
of all marine creatures, especially sea turtles.
"Jack Rudloe's nonfiction account of
living on the Gulf Coast, The Living Dock at
Panacea, is a Florida classic that ranks with Cross Creek. In
Potluck, Mr. Rudloe proves he can handle fiction with the same
energy and insightful style." --Randy Wayne White, author of
Captiva, Shark River and The Man who Invented Florida.
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-- Fiction by Jack Rudloe --
(Published by
Out Your
Backdoor Press)
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Also Available
from Great Outdoors
Classic Nonfiction by
Jack Rudloe:
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 Potluck
By Jack Rudloe
Size 6" x 9", 264 pages, paperback.
ISBN 1-89259037-9, $14.95
Preston Barfield is an upstanding small-family commercial fisherman
whose vanishing way of life on the Gulf of Mexico pressures him into
accepting an offer he can't refuse. When Preston gets a panicked call
from his brother-in-law Lupino that his boat is on fire, he turns his
shrimp trawler offshore to the rescue, only to find Lupino's burning
boat filled with smugglers and marijuana. Hard times and desperation
force his hand. Unexpected gun-running, an ffair with a dope queen,
cocaine smuggling, attacking pirates, murder... and in the end, the
boat of his dreams. |
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