"I know of no book about gardens that comes close to the beauty of Sharon White's Vanished Gardens. Her lyrical prose moves effortlessly through the centuries, through the stories and histories of people and flowers, of rivers and plants. Stunning work."
—Lisa Couturier, author of The Hopes of Snakes & Other Tales from the Urban Landscape

With more than forty native and introduced species of frogs and toads occurring in the southeastern United States, the region represents the heart of frog and toad diversity in the country. This is the most comprehensive, authoritative, fun-to-read guide to these sometimes wet, sometimes warty wonders of nature.