Abstract
Abstract: For many readers, John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee novels are first and foremost about a courageous and likeable private investigator who consistently strives to help his clients even when doing so promises trouble for himself. Yet, the books are also about the place where McGee lives and his relationship with it. MacDonald’s coastal Florida is a region that yields pleasure at the cost of reckless development. These novels depict conflict between McGee’s lifestyle and his purported environmentalism, between a man who expresses the relevance of preserving the natural world and an individualist whose actions and lifestyle often exploit the very place that he supposedly reveres.
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