![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It began to form 150 million years ago, "midwifed by the breakup of what was then Earth's sole landmass, Pangaea, surrounded by a single global ocean, Panthalassa." That origin, he notes, was confirmed by geologists using core drillings made by petroleum hunters in the 20th century. I call this triad Homer's truth, and it lies at the heart of this book."ĭavis begins with the gulf's origin - not a meteor impact, as was once thought, but something much slower. Like all of Homer's Homosassa paintings, Shell Heap conveys an intimate and vital connection linking humankind, nature, and history. ![]() The Gulf takes on a larger subject with a sweeping history from the sea's formation to its state in the 21st century.ĭavis explains his approach in the prologue with a description of a 1904 work made by the great American painter Winslow Homer during one of his frequent sojourns to Homosassa, just up the coast from Tampa Bay: "In one such painting, Shell Heap, sabal palms shade an aboriginal mound spilling discarded oyster shells down to the water's edge where two anglers float in a skiff, suggesting a continuity between the ancient and the recent. His 2009 book, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, received the gold medal in the nonfiction category of the Florida Book Awards. Davis is a professor of history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida. ![]()
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