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The Wilderness
Coast
 By
Jack Rudloe
Size 6" x 9", 264 pages, paperback, color photographs,
line illustrations by Julia Damon Hanway, index.
ISBN 0-8200-1207-6, $14.95
Click here to read an excerpt
The "wilderness coast"--that portion of
the Florida Panhandle that juts south into the Gulf of Mexico--is home to
Gulf Specimen company and the source of most of the marine creatures that
it supplies to educational institutions and research facilities. But the
pursuit of unsual sea creatures and the answers to puzzling biological
questions takes Jack and Anne Rudloe elsewhere, too. The farthest depths
of the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, Port Canaveral, even
Surinam--these are the scenes of their activities. Like any profession,
specimen collecting has its attendant hazards: being slashed by a sawfish,
zapped by an electric ray, nipped by a sea turtle, or attacked by an
alligator. More perilous yet is being caught in 50 fathoms of water in a
violent storm in a less-than-seaworthy boat. These and other adventures
are recounted in this entertaining and informative book.
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.
"...entertaining
and highly informative, suitable for most general collections."
--Library Journal
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Also Available
from Great Outdoors
Classic Nonfiction by
Jack Rudloe:
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 Fiction
by Jack Rudloe
(Published by
Out Your
Backdoor Press)
Potluck
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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"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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