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By Donald Robert Wilson

Book Overview

Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Sprague has recently graduated from her botany studies at Wellesley College and now wants to leave her secure life with her parents in Boston to go to the Florida Everglades to study the plants there--something that in 1893 no woman has ever done. Her domineering father has other plans for her, namely, marrying her to a young man Beth detests in order to join his business with that of a prominent family. Her solution is to go off to St. Augustine with her aunt as chaperone. Her family assumes this will satisfy her Florida longings, but once in St. Augustine she figures out a way to head farther south, wisely carrying a derringer in her handbag. What she finds there is a wild and forbidding frontier inhabited by dangerous animals and even more dangerous men. She is warned about the poisonous swamp miasmas, the evil "night folks," and especially the ominous Swamp Ape, a hairy half-creature-half-man said to roam there. But none of this will prepare her for what she finds lurking deep within the Glades.

Beth finds much more than unique and interesting plants in the Everglades. She finds that she is a woman who can face danger of every sort--from hurricanes and alligators to wild and desperate men--and hold her own. She proves she isn't just a "bucket flower," a pampered person unfit to face the rigors of the swamp. She finds her way, one much different from the one her parents had planned for her--and even quite different from the one she had planned for herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561646172
• ISBN13: 9781561646173
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great historical Florida story!

This is a great book for all the people who love the rural wilderness in Florida. Very well researched enjoyable story with great descriptions of adventures in the Everglades over one hundred years ago but with a contemporary point of view of the heroine. Loved it.

A delightful read!

The Bucket Flower gives the reader an opportunity to walk in the shoes of a botanist in old Florida in early 1900. Set primarily in South Florida, the author takes the reader on an adventure from stuffy eastern society to the wilds of the everglades. Mr. Wilson follows the trail of a young female botanist who is trying to escape her overbearing father and a fiance she does not love. As Beth pursues her dream of identifying the tropical plants of Florida, she runs into all kinds of wild creatures never before seen by this delicate "Bucket Flower" as she walks down a path of scientific and self discovery. The descriptions are breathtaking and the story keeps you turning pages!! Linda Bilodeau Author: Stepping Through Seagrass The Olive Branch A Tale of Resistance.