Marvin Cook has traveled throughout the U.S. and Caribbean working to connect people to natural and cultural history at parks, museums and wildlife refuges. The company he founded designed and created exhibitions and wayside interpretive signs at venues from the Cayman Islands to the North Slope of Alaska. He produced the Charles Kuralt Trail and Everglades Trail CDs, and numerous short topic videos. He has created conceptual plans for parks and historic sites including many for The Bahamas. Fiction has liberated his imagination, allowing him to invent characters maneuvering through dramatic circumstances in interesting places. When not writing or painting Florida and Maine landscapes, Cook sails the coast of Florida and spends summers aboard a boat in Downeast Maine with his wife, Lee. His paintings are represented by Small Wonders Gallery in Camden, Maine. The popular and successful Blue Goose Passport to National Wildlife Refuges (ISBN 978-0967129211) is project he and Lee co-created in 1999. In addition to authoring novels, he has illustrated several scientific books including Trees of Florida (ISBN 9781561640553) and Shrubs and Woody Plants of Florida (ISBN 1561641065), both by Gil Nelson published by Pineapple Press. Two additional novels describe dangerous and funny adventures in Everglades National Park up the coast of Florida to the Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge and Cedar Key. Look for HOUSEBOAT HERMIT OF THE EVERGLADES and CAN'T OUTRUN THE PAST. ADRIFT IN THE GULF STREAM, a sequel to his first book, ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS, is available now.
