Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida’s Big Bend.

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (!998). First Edition. Oblong quarto, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi, 64 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Big Bend is a crescent-shaped coastline where the peninsula of Florida merges with the underbelly of the southeastern states. From Tampa Bay to the Ochlockonee River, the land meets the sea in an ecologically abundant system of swamps, salt marshes, and wet cabbage-palm forrests. For more than a decade, Todd Bertolaet has hiked, paddled, and waded through the region to capture these panoramic images that convey its botanical richness, primoridial environs, and changing waterways.