In Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas analyzes the history of Florida s incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood, possession, and political identity within American letters, from early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to settlers guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys. In Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas analyzes the history of Florida s incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood, possession, and political identity within American letters, from early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to settlers guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys.