Parrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city’s real story—told by Maureen Ogle in this lively and engaging illustrated account—is as fabulous as fiction. In the two centuries since the city’s pioneer founders battled Indians, pirates, and deadly ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: Maureen Ogle

For more than a century, Florida has thrived on its image as an exotic playground. Selling the Sunshine State offers a scrapbook of bygone brochures, postcards, souvenirs, and photos, all designed to lure northerners (and fellow southerners) into the peninsula.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: Tim Hollis

Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State tells the grand and sometimes crazy story of Florida through the eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets to tell. Roberts’s ancestors helped settle Florida, kill off its pesky Indians, enslave some of its inhabitants, clear its ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: DIANE ROBERTS

"The history of a big river is much like the water itself. Travel down it, and you'll find people and places sure to surprise and enlighten you. So it is with Voices of the Apalachicola. . . . History buffs, writers, researchers, biologists, and naturalists should find the book valuable."--Tallahassee Democrat "Captures the uniqueness of the Apalachicola basin, the ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: FAITH EIDSE

Florida is a land of geological wonders, from its little-known earthquake history to the rich new fossil hunting grounds constantly being revealed by commercial development and quarrying activity. Much more than a fashionable resort or retirement destination. Florida ranks fifth in mineral production among all the United States. Florida's surprising mineral wealth ranges from commercial ...

Manufacturer: Gem Guides Book Co
Written By: Iris Tracy Comfort, Iris T. Comfort

The author goes south to explore the outrageous roadside attractions that have come to define the Sunshine State in this fun, full-colour book.

Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
Written By: Peter Genovese

From its idyllic source in the Green Swamp, the Hillsborough River winds past columns of cypress and matted shrubs and opens into Tampa Bay, part of Florida's urbanized, publicized western Suncoast. The river is not a long one, but the size of its legend in contemporary America is farreaching. Many factors have made the area special: its natural history; its successive waves of immigrants; its ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: GLORIA JAHODA

Morton Winsberg provides an illustrated catalog listing of more than 800 historically significant buildings and sites around the state.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: MORTON D. WINSBERG

Helen Muir's affectionate account of Miami first appeared in 1953 and has grown through several revisions into the definitive popular history of a remarkable city. Marjory Stoneman Douglas, writing for the Chicago Tribune, called the first edition "vigorous, colorful, dramatic, variously detailed, jam-packed with people, fast moving, a seething document.... Helen Muir threads her way vividly and ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: HELEN MUIR

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: Edgar Canter Brown