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

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

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

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

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

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

The first Native peoples of what is now the United States who met and interacted with Europeans were the people of the lower Southeast. They were individuals of the larger Maskoki linguistic family who inhabited much of present-day Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and eastern portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Louisiana. Today, the sixteen federally recognized tribes ...

Manufacturer: Fire Ant Books
Written By: William A. Read

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

"The largest inland city in Florida, Orlando, also known as "the City Beautiful

Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
Written By: Donald D. Spencer