Hidden History of Florida, Paperback - James C. Clark

Reducere. Florida has a history as diverse as its residents. And much of that is still hidden. Since the arrival of the Spanish in 1513, the state has played...

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Reducere. In 1513, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon first set foot on Florida's east coast. The land he discovered was a geographic anomaly so distinctive that...

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Reducere. This is the heralded "definitive history" of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the crazin...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. In the...

Reducere. "This path-breaking book brilliantly explains the explosive growth of Florida from 2.7 million inhabitants in 1950 to 15.9 million in 2000. It focu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. In the...

Reducere. The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social polici...

Reducere. Kentucky is most commonly associated with horses, tobacco fields, bourbon, and coal mines. There is much more to the state, though, than stories of...

Reducere. What is a Notary Public? A notary public is a public officer appointed and commissioned by the Governor whose function is to administer oaths (or a...

Reducere. This book is the first comprehensive guide to Florida's amazing variety of tree species: from scrub oak on the high central ridges to mangroves str...

Reducere. If you can't get enough of majestic trees, brightly colored flowers, and anything that grows from the ground up, you'll love this guide to 74 outst...

Reducere. Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the most common and sought-after species in a state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe enigmatic hills and woodlands of the Chattanooga area are a sanctuary of history, and the hometown of author Alexandra Walker Clark....

Reducere. From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a bri...

Reducere. Do bromeliads ever harm their hosts? Are they parasites? Can any of them really live on air? How many kinds live in Florida? Are the pretty ones ea...

Reducere. A timeless collection of pirate stories from Florida originally written in the late 1950s, this book includes stories of well-known and lesser know...

Reducere. With such a rich and significant history, it s only natural that some of the best stories from the Sunshine State have been forgotten over time. Th...

Lonely Planet Discover Florida is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await ...

Reducere. Silver Springs, located in central Florida, is perhaps the best known natural artesian spring in the world. A grand natural wonder of the world on ...

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Fl...

Reducere. The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin America...

Reducere. The late Pleistocene-early Holocene landscape hosted more species and greater numbers of them in the Southeast compared to any other region in Nort...

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Reducere. The enterprising spirit that led to Sonoma County's storied agricultural heritage defined its earliest denizens. Sail the seas with Captain Bodega ...

Reducere. Traces of Litchfield County's past are hidden in plain sight. Vestiges of long-abandoned railroad tracks crisscross the county while a decaying and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cathy SalustriIn the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers, but also Zora Neale Hurston and Ste...

Reducere. Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look f...

Fifty years after Stonewall, critic James Polchin reveals the hidden history of violence against gay men in America.