Iron-Tail

by George X. Sand, Ned Smith (Illustrator)

Describes the first year in the life of a young alligator in the Florida Everglades and the ecological forces at work among the swamp's tropical plants and animals

142 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

George X. Sand was born in Manahawkin, New Jersey, on April 16, 1915. He attended public schools in New Jersey, the Massachusetts Radio and Telegraph School in Boston, and the Capitol Radio Engineering Institute in Washington, D. C. Now a freelance magazine writer and photojournalist, he is a director of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He has had hundreds of articles, fiction features, and photo stories published in top U.S. magazines. He has also written short stories that have been reprinted a dozen times, used in English books, and used by the State Department for broadcast into Iron Curtain countries. Mr. Sand says this of his career as a free lancer: "Looking back, it's been a wild, wonderful hodgepodge of victories and defeats, of shrieks and sighs. I've traveled over a million miles-by plane, bus, car, jeep, horse and dugout canoe. At my age now, I doubt that I'd do it over. And yet, there's nothing I'd rather do. I love adventure."

source: about the author in Skin and Scuba Diving