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Camp-Fires of the Everglades: or Wild Sports in the South
Av University Press of Florida
Häftad, 1991
235 kr
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These charming tales of Florida in the early nineteenth century were brought to the attention of the University of Florida Press by the late Archie Carr, Florida's preeminent naturalist, who believed they evoked a place, a time, and a way of life that belonged in print again. The Florida peninsula …
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
Florida's Fighting Democrat
Häftad, 1993
291 kr
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Now in a new paperback edition, Samuel Proctor's popular biography was first described as "a lusty narrative of a lusty age." Revealing the politics and intrigues of frontier Florida in the period still known as the "Broward Era," Proctor describes the life and liberal administration of Napoleon …
Some Kind of Paradise
A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida
Av Mark Derr
Häftad, 1998
254 kr
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River of the Golden Ibis
Häftad, 2000
254 kr
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This work traces the origins of the Hillsborough River, in Florida, to prehistoric times, chronicles the arrivals of the conquistadores, the missionaries, and the marauders greedy for civilizing and for treasure, and points out how contemporary ambitions could destroy the environment.
Up for Grabs
A Trip Through Time and Space in the Sunshine State
Häftad, 2000
225 kr
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A wandering Floridian who made his way home in the early 1970s, John Rothchild writes about the state with the savvy of a native and the perspective of an outsider. His personal and historical travelogue reads alternately like a litany of 20th-century ills and a Monty Python rendering of the Great …
Palmetto Leaves
Av University Press of Florida
Häftad, 2009
283 kr
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In 1867, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin settled in a small cottage in Mandarin, Florida, overlooking the St. Johns River. She had promised her Boston publisher another novel but was so taken with northeast Florida that she produced instead a series of sketches of the land and the people which she …
Rebel Bishop
Augustin Verot, Florida's Civil War Prelate
Häftad, 1997
229 kr
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Augustin Verot preached vehemently on behalf of slave rights, but nevertheless used his pulpit to defend slavery as an institution. This is a biography of this controversial figure and the impact he made at a critical juncture of the histories of Florida, the Catholic Church and the Civil War.
Surrounded on Three Sides
Av John Keasler
Häftad, 1999
184 kr
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Escaping the frantic world of New York public relations, Paul Higgins moves his family to rustic west Florida, where peace and rest are assured. Then a celebrated author moves into the neighbourhood, and Higgins develops a series of efforts to discourage tourists, investors and developers.
Contemplations of a Primal Mind
Av Gabriel Horn
Häftad, 2000
216 kr
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Echoing the ancient sounds of the Native American oral tradition, this collection of essays offers a look at the Native American spirituality as it is lived. Wisdom keeper Gabriel Horn writes in praise of the primal mind, describing his wonder at the splendour of the natural world.
Going to Miami
Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America
Av David Reiff
Häftad, 2000
165 kr
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This is a personal narrative as well as a book about Miami at the moment in the mid-1980s when the transformation of the city by its Cuban exile population was achieving critical mass. Rieff looks at Miami as America's New Havana, with a nod to the image fostered by TV's ""Miami Vice"" - an …
