Twelve North Florida springs and the Floridan Aquifer that feeds them form the nucleus of this book through the art and writing of artist Margaret Ross Tolbert. But the aesthetics and science of this book speak to all of the freshwater springs in Florida. AQUIFERious (Fidelity Press, $45) includes photographs, artistic cave maps, essays and scientific articles from ten contributors that recount a world of extreme cave diving, history, literature and science. There are detailed chronicles of the seldom-seen life forms inhabiting the depths of the springs, as well as accounts of increasing pollution that threatens both the quality and magnitude of the spring outflows. The poetic with the passion for the fragile springs and the creativity they
inspire is tempered with sobering stories of loss of flow and water quality. 7pm