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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780446695701 ISBN: 044669570X Label: Grand Central Publishing Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: May 09, 2005 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Studio: Grand Central Publishing Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Who let the voles out? The precious, blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom theme park on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs who have much bigger-and deadlier-things in mind. On the hunt for the rare rodents is Joe Winder, a burned-out ex-muckraking reporter who now works for the park as their PR man. Even as a scandal breaks out over the theft, Winder finds himself trailing an eco-terrorist geriatric, a certain former-governor-turned-swamp rat, and sleazy land developer Francis X. Kingsbury. Determined to uncover the true nature of the Kingdom, Winder must survive this harrowing wilderness-before the natives get to him.... Average Rating:
 Rating:  - preposterous funWhen I retire from a life of journalism, I aspire to write books as silly, as environmental, and with plots as catchy as Hiaasen's--assuming there will still be books 10 years from now and that I actually have the chance to retire, oh, and that there will still be an environment. Rating: - Great Summer Read!I love all Carl Hiaasen's books but this one is one of my favorites. Each one of Hiaasen's books about Florida have one native that is fighting to try to save some of Florida's natural habitat/animals. Native Tongue is about 'saving the endangered Blue-tongued Voles'. As the story unfolds we discover - there aren't any Blue-tongued Voles -- only regular Voles with their tongues dyed blue with food coloring! Just another scam to lure clueless tourists to Florida. In the end, the good ... Read More Rating:  - Not bad but Hiaasen can do betterThe amusement theme park "Amazing Kingdom" in Florida houses the last living species of blue-tongued mango voles. Their robbery and their tragic death is the beginning of a series of murder and mayhem. Former newspaper reporter Joe Winder works as a PR man in the park. When he starts digging for the truth he soon finds himself entangled with a group of eco-terrorists, former criminals and all kinds of strange characters. As usual Hiaasen gathers a strange bunch of characters unparalleled ... Read More Rating: - I smell a rat!Mickey Rat that is. Carl Hiaasen does it again with an imaginative poke at the big boys in Orlando with Native Tongue. As you can expect there are environmental undertones to the story, but that's what makes this one so lovable with an ensemble of screwball characters that are all too believable. Hiaasen does a fantastic job of painting a picture that reveals more of Florida's odd residents as well as its fragile beauty. James A. Forrest - Eye of the Storm Rating: - Preserving the environmentThis is one of the author's earlier novels, and has the anti-development theme found in some other novels. It has the usual cast of characters found in Hiaasen's novels, a little off the wall. An entertainment park claims to have the last pair of a rare species of animal, or are they? The story starts with a theft, and events go forward from there. The owner (with a shady psst) will destroy the environment for profit. Various people oppose him, including one of his PR writers, a save-the-environment ... Read More 
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