Dick in the Everglades

The narrative follows two adventurous boys who leave school to explore South Florida's coastal and marshlands, joining a sponging crew and voyaging through Everglades waterways. Their journey mixes practical seamanship and wilderness craft with episodes of hunting and trapping, harpooning tarpon and manatees, encounters with alligators and crocodiles, clashes with outlaws and tense meetings with Seminoles, and dramatic episodes such as prairie fires and a panther attack. Interwoven are hands-on descriptions of canoeing, camping, animal handling, and landscape navigation, illustrated by photographs that underscore the region's wildlife and scenery and the boys' resourcefulness and survival skills.