W Hodding Carter: 3 books
Stolen Water
Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A riotous journey through America's most controversial, beautifully unapproachable, and abused wilderness -- the Florida Everglades.
In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law a $7.8 billion restoration plan for the Everglades that garnered national attention and has since become America's...
Flushed
How the Plumber Saved Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Hodding Carter writes, "The unsung hero of human history was, of course, the Brain of Drains, the Hub of Tubs, the Power of Showers, the Brewer of Sewers...the humble plumber.... The Irish may have saved civilization, once, but plumbers have done so countless times."
When we consider the amenities...
by W. Hodding Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Hodding Carter dreamed of being an Olympian as a kid. He worshipped Mark Spitz, swam his heart out, and just missed qualifying for the Olympic trials in swimming as a college senior. Although he didn't qualify for the 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, or 2004 Olympics, he never stopped believing...