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

'I had met only two or three of the neighboring Crackers when I realized the isolation had done something to these people... they have a primal quality against their background of jungle hammock, moss-hung against the tremendous silence of the scrub country. The only ingredients of their lives are the elemental things.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: J. T. GLISSON

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: Topeka Bindery
Written By: Iris Tracy Comfort

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

One of the main water resources for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, the Apalachicola River begins where the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet at Lake Seminole and flow unimpeded for 106 miles, through the red hills and floodplains of the Florida panhandle into the Gulf of Mexico. Voices of the Apalachicola is a collection of oral histories from more than thirty ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: FAITH EIDSE

Manufacturer: Clearfield
Written By: Lawrence H. Feldman

Manufacturer: The Library
Written By: Miriam Sawyer Bailey

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

In the history of St. Augustine, the story of the Minorcans, who still today exert tremendous political and social influence, rivals the drama of the Jamestown or Plymouth settlements. Patricia C. Griffin describes their first twenty years in the New World, including the hardship of their arrival in British East Florida in 1768, their starvation and suffering on an indigo plantation, and their ...

Manufacturer: Univ of North Florida
Written By: Patricia C. Griffin

"St Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950" chronicles the early history of St Petersburg and the lower Pinellas Peninsula. From the pre-Columbian culture of the Tocobanga mound-builders to the arrival of the railroad, from the St Petersburg-Havana yacht races to the tin-can tourists of the first stirrings of the Sunbelt phenomenon following World War II, this text presents a tapestry of the ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: Raymond Arsenault