Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida EvergladesConsider just two of the countless facts about the damage we have done to the Everglades: Half of its original 14,000 square mile expanse is gone, and saving what is left will cost at least $8. 4 billion. Alluding to destruction on a scale we can barely grasp, figures like these can at once stir and immobilize us. In Liquid Land, Ted Levin guides us past the dire headlines and into the magnificent swamp itself, where we come face to face with the