Sarasota's distinction today as a vibrant capital of culture springs from the calculated ambition of a handful of early residents--celebrities who spearheaded the city's destiny. Their vision and resources transformed a quaint fishing village on the Gulf coast of Florida into a glamorous resort town and international art center--a story told here, with full-color photographs, for the first time. ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: PAT RINGLING BUCK, MARCIA CORBINO, KEVIN DEAN

Visit Goofy Golf, Florida’s coolest miniature golf course. Explore Gatorama, home to the state’s largest captive croc, Goliath. See Orange World, the 62-foot-tall orange-shaped fruit stand. The author of Roadside New Jersey (0811720614) goes south to explore the outrageous roadside attractions that have come to define the Sunshine State in this fun, full-color book. Experience the best Florida ...

Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
Written By: Peter Genovese

With 189 photographs in text, 38 in full color.

Manufacturer: Knopf
Written By: Ann Armbruster

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

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 easy-going recital of his visits with Miami's most influential Cuban leaders, ranging from moderates to ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: DAVID RIEFF

Modern Florida began among a group of Yankee reformers at the end of the Civil War, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and her brother Charles. This book tells the story of the group, and of their designs for a postwar Florida.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: John T. Foster, Sarah Whitmer Foster

Updating this new edition through the 1990s, Muir brings the story of the frontier post transformed by Flagler, Tuttle, and a host of near-legendary figures and events to a new century of readers. To those who reflect on Muir's colorful epilogue, the city's primitive origins barely 100 years ago will seem improbable, the characters and events of the boom, crash, and war years astonishing, and the ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: HELEN MUIR

The oldest town in interior south Florida, Fort Meade lies about 5 miles east of Tampa and 10 miles south of Polk County's seat of Bartow. In this volume, Polk County native Canter Brown recounts the intriguing story of the founding and evolution of Fort Meade during the last half of the 19th century, when it was first established as a military outpost to separate Seminoles from white pioneer ...

Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
Written By: Canter Brown

The story of America's half century in space exploration, from the successful launch of the first two-stage rocket in 1950 to the space shuttle missions of 2000. It shows how the space programme transformed the east central Florida coast from a traditional citrus production and tourist area into one of the most influential high-tech centres of the nation. Cape Canaveral was chosen as a missile ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: WILLIAM B. FAHERTY

Manufacturer: Univ of South Carolina Pr
Written By: Geroge E. Buker