River of Lakes
A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River

This was a great book. All that are interested in nature should read this!!......more

The book was not bad, not good but not bad. The writing style was overly flowery and lyrical in a non-natural way. It was almost like he attempted to imitate the writing of older explorers’ journals (most likely Bartram) and fell short. Not everyone can write that way and have it work for them. And......more

The writing in this book deserves a higher rating. The book is a lazy meander down the St. John's River which runs north for more than 300 miles in Florida. Along the way there is history, ecology and scenery to entrance the reader. Anyone even slightly familiar with this area of Florida would find t......more

Bill Belleville journeys Florida’s St. Johns River from its headwaters north to Jacksonville where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean. He travels by canoe, kayak, houseboat—and even underwater when he scuba dives in several of the springs that feed the river—and shares ecology and history along the......more

Belleville manages to evoke a sense of place and positions this account of the northward-flowing river in eastern Florida amid the long tradition of first-person nature narratives dating back to Thoreau and others. He presents the river in both ecological terms as well as the cultural influences of......more