Twelve North Florida springs form the nucleus of this book that depicts the springs and the Floridan Aquifer through art and writing by artist Margaret Ross Tolbert. AQUIFERious also includes scientific essays, underwater springs maps and photography from ten contributors that recount a world of extreme cave diving, history and science that chronicles the fantastic life forms inhabiting them, and threats of rising pollution in the springs: Bill Belleville's history and explanation of springs in Florida Springs: Eocene memories, Fueled by a Dream, Stefan Craciun's essay and images about Sirena, Life in Florida's Aquifer Caves by biologist Tom Morris, including his underwater photography of the enormous caverns under Silver Springs and Silver Glen spring, and photos of rare cave crayfish and shrimp, Eric Hutcheson's accounts of his exploits as an extreme cartographer in The Amazing Maps of Eric Hutcheson, Howard Jelks' Springs: A Florida Treasure, Denise Trunk Krigbaum on Springs Critters, Jon Martin on Springs Water Ages, Dan Rountree on Siphons and Swallets, Georgia Shemitz's map of springsheds and recharge areas, Jim Stevenson's essay, Florida Springs: a Cloudy but Hopeful Future. The poetic, with the passion and creativity the springs inspire, is tempered with sobering stories of loss of flow and water quality, and damage to these spectacularly beautiful and fragile phenomena. Includes useful links and suggestions for helping the springs. Book is signed by the author.

A percentage of sales goes to groups helping the springs. Printed by Fidelity Press in Orlando, 160 pages casebound, 9 x 12 inches, designed by Jarrod Ryhal.

Current 2009 Edition
The workbook captures the best current practices in overhead instruction into one convenient workbook that will last a student from initial cavern training up through the full cave certification and that provides a great resource for reviewing important material by the seasoned cave diver. The workbook has been specially crafted to match the current NACD Standards & Procedures. This will enhance the quality of the experience for the student and provide a common standard for training at all levels. The workbook is upwards of 150 pages and includes useful outlines, photos and illustrations, cave maps, discussions and extensive calculations for gas math.

For those who believe that the best way to understand someone is to walk a mile in his or her shoes, Florida's rich history features those whose footwear ranged from Native American moccasins to astronauts’ boots. And there are plenty of opportunities to actually walk in those shoes. You can join in all sorts of historical reenactments - in full costume if you like. You have the unique opportunity to relive a part of Florida's long and fascinating past.

You can also travel forward into the future. The Florida peninsula has been like a springboard from which human beings can rocket into space or dive beneath the surfaces of its nearly surrounding waters.

This unique guidebook offers you time travel. The day has arrived for this new kind of travelogue, which reveals not only places to visit but also time periods to experience. This is a book for today's explorers of place and space, past and future. This is The Time Traveler's Guide to Florida.

Nature is wonderful, but some of us would like to enjoy it with minimum effort. Well, this is the book for us. Here's what the author has to say about it:

Let's start out right. This is an Easygoing Guide. Easygoing means no sweat. Easygoing means no foot calluses. Easygoing means no overnight camping. Easygoing means no long, arduous hikes. These trips are for fun, not exercise. Their purpose is to stimulate the mind, not the muscles. Appreciating nature does not require dirtying one's hands. There are plenty of books for fanatic nature-lovers. This is for more casual nature-lovers.

This is not an encyclopedic listing of Florida's natural places. To make this book, a site must meet the following criteria: it must be beautiful; it must be easy to reach; it must not require an inordinate amount of exertion to enjoy; and it must not cost a lot of money.

This is the first of three volumes that will cover the entire state. Here in southern Florida we visit east coast beaches, the Indian River Lagoon, the St. Johns Marsh, the Kissimmee Prairie and the interior scrub. Then we head farther south to the Corkscrew Swamp and Fakahatchee Strand, west coast beaches, the Ten Thousand Islands, the Everglades, and the Keys.

Nature is indeed wonderful, but some of us would like to enjoy it with minimum effort. This series guides us in travels to experience the pleasures of Florida nature without a lot of huffing and puffing. Easygoing means no sweat, not blisters, no overnight camping, and no long, arduous hikes. To make this series, a site must be beautiful and easy to reach, must not cost a lot of money, and must not require an inordinate amount of exercise to enjoy it.

This is the second of three volumes that will cover the entire state. Here in central Florida first we visit Water Worlds that include the Orlando wetlands, Merritt Island, and a fish camp. Then we go airboating on the St. Johns River. We then head to the Enchanted Waters of Wekiwa and Gemini Springs and encounter the manatees of Blue Springs. We visit the Big Scrub of the Ocala National Forest and venture along the Yearling Trail. We sample the pleasures of a longleaf pine forest, the Emeralda Marsh, and Cypress Cove before heading over to the Green Swamp and Fort DeSoto Park. Along the Nature Coast, we explore Chassahowitzka and the whooping cranes, Cedar Key, and Crystal River before heading back inland to the Devil’s Millhopper, Paynes Prairie, and Ravine State Gardens. And there's plenty more! Central Florida has an abundance of natural sites for the easygoing traveler.