This volume combines guidebook and route map, with places of interest highlighted and detours to get you off the main tourist trail. It contains a selection of the best regions for touring by car in Florida, including Miami and the Keys, Tallahassee and St Augustine, plus a full guide to the theme parks of Orlando.
**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **2018 National Book Awards Finalist** In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and...
"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Florida"--
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Woman's Campaign Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. John Paul Jones. “Florida's Cavern City,” Florida Living (July 1986), pp. 6–13.
This Weird take on the Sunshine State offers authentic history as well as wild rumors, myths and wacky legends ("South Florida Sun Sentinel").
Provides an overview of Florida history, from pre-history to the present.
The story of Florida, the 27th state of the Union, has been characterized by continuous growth.
In this new updated edition the author presents 74 of his favorites—17 of them are new to this edition, and the rest have been completely updated.
Introduces the diverse places, animals, plants, and people of the Sunshine State, from the centuries-old homes and forts of Pensacola to the tiny Key deer that chew on mangroves on Big Pine Key.
... and I extend warm thanks for their help to Jennifer M. Frastai, city manager administrator; Shari Canada, ... Our friends at the Hallandale Beach Rotary Club, including but not limited to Helmut Meissner and Robert Friedman, ...
Juan Ponce de Leon was a young soldier in Spain when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the New World.