Florida - The holdiay paradise of America, where the sun always
shines and skyscrapers push their way into the clear blue sky. Life is easy beside the sea and surf of Miami, but only a few miles away is a different world, where the clock turns back centuries-the Everglades. In these dark swamps, where alligators slither into the water, live the Seminole Indians.
Joe Panther is one Seminole who is not content with his life in the Everglades. He dreams of working on one of the boats taking rich men to fish in the warm waters of the gulf, to hunt tuna and the vicious sharks. But to get a job he is forced to go back to the old ways and capture a huge alligator single-handedly! Even for Joe, who has lived all his life in the swamps, this is no easy task. Beside the menacing trees and along the meandering riverbanks he hunts, until, in the light of his torch, he sees the two red eyes of the alligator he wants...
An unusual setting and the skill of a master storyteller combine to make this one of the best adventure books you'll ever read.