Download or read book A River in Flood, and Other Florida Stories written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories on Florida early this century, portraying the state as a place where men begin new lives rather than end them. Typical is The Mayor of Flamingo, on a man who abandons the city to become a farmer.