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▼a 9781493048274
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▼a Alderson, Doug,
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▼a America's Alligator
▼b A Popular History of Our Most Celebrated Reptile/
▼c Doug Alderson. |
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▼a Guilford :
▼b The Lyons Press,
▼c 2020. |
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▼a 1 online resource:
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▼a Intro -- Introduction -- One: Mythical Gatekeepers -- Two: To Wrestle an Alligator -- Three: "The Hollow, Booming Bellow of the Big Bulls" -- Four: A Tale of Two Joes -- Five: Jumping for Tourists and Chickens -- Six: Star of Song and Screen -- Seven: Baby Alligators for Sale! -- Eight: Mascots and Namesakes -- Nine: Reptiles Lurking in the White House? -- Ten: If Chased by an Alligator -- Eleven: Embark on an Alligator Adventure -- Bibliography -- About the Author |
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▼e The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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▼a People have long been fascinated by the American alligator. Ever since humans arrived on the continent more than 15,000 years ago, the American alligator has been both feared and revered, celebrated and scorned, and often hunted for food and hide. Once tourism began to take hold in the South as a real industry, especially in Florida, the alligator took on iconic and even mythical status. "One of the most picturesque features of Florida has always been that uncouth and fierce-looking reptile called the alligator," wrote Nevin O. Winter in 1918. "Everybody who comes down here to the peninsula ha. |
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▼a Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 18, 2020). |
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▼a WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 072 |
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▼a American alligator
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▼a Reptiles
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▼a American alligator
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▼a Reptiles
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▼a Nature: Animals / General.
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▼a History
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