Nature's Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Paperback - Nick Penniman

Nature's Steward chronicles the development of southwest Florida using the modern-day Conservancy of Southwest Florida as the lens through which to...

Reducere. The history of sugar in Florida is a tale of experimentation and entrepreneurs, early mistakes and later successes, politics and money flowing free...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Nick BryantNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 32Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. DescriptionFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers...

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...

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Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Roger StewardNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 210 x 12Cover type: Paperbac...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nick LloydNumber of pages: 688Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 534 x 221 x 48Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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. According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifica...

Reducere. How tourism shaped the Sunshine State"An enlightening journey through Florida's diverse and evolving tourism history, illustrating the changing fac...

In the thirteenth century, radical reformers - churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers - undertook Hherculean efforts aimed at th...

Reducere. This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the le...

Reducere. DescriptionWant to learn more about the state of Florida? Sure, you know it's home to Disney World, but what else do you really know about the Suns...

Reducere. Today, on the Keys between Key West and the mainland, some 40, 000 residents and thousands of visitors fish, swim, sail, and dive in the crystal cl...

Reducere. "Recounts a time when range wars, cattle drives, rustling, street brawls, and rum running were commonplace in Florida. Though the focus is on Mizel...

Demonstrates that looking at nature through the lens of the marketplace is a surprisingly effective approach to protecting the environment. Barbara...

Reducere. "A classic study of the moon rocket that launched the Apollo astronauts on their voyages of discovery."--Roger Launius, chief historian, National A...

Reducere. In the backwoods of Holmes County, settled deep in the rugged landscape of the Florida panhandle, has long been a people set apart from their neigh...

Reducere. What exactly is a "Cracker"? An entertaining, informative look at a slice of old Florida culture. For over 200 years scholars have attempted to def...

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began t...

Reducere. Ulster, in the north of the Kingdom of Ireland underwent resettlement in 1609. Defeated by the British Army in the Nine Years War, Gaelic chieftain...

Reducere. Radical subcultures in an unlikely place Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and regi...

In the 1980s, The Nature Conservancy began work on the fast-growing Outer Banks by protecting Nags Head Woods. One of the last intact maritime fore...

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. ``A must-read for all dancers as the invaluable historical references and in-depth coverage of the different jazz forms cannot be found in such det...

Reducere. Florida was the third Southern state to secede from the United States in 1860-61. With its small population of 140, 000 and no manufacturing, few C...

Reducere. The decades after World War II were a golden age for roadside attractions in the Sunshine State. The advent of the family automobile put Florida's ...

Reducere. This beautifully produced deep dive into Yosemite National Park features stunning photography by Robb Hirsch and fascinating natural history from k...

Reducere. A captivating history of the Civil War in northeast Florida "Captures in rich detail the competition between the Confederates and Unionists, blacks...

Until now Apache history has been fragmented, offered in books dealing with specific bands or groups-the Mescaleros, Mimbreños, Chiricahuas, and th...

Reducere. Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction International Latino Book Awards, First Place, Best History Book (English) Scholarly and p...

An edited volume divided into five sections: historical linguistics, loss and maintenance, descriptive linguistics, work on language attitudes and ...

Reducere. The play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrights Thomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metr...

Publisher: University Press of FloridaAuthor(s): Juan A. MartinezIllustration(s): 53 color plates, 24 b/w photosNumber of pages: 104Publication dat...

Reducere. The Herero campaign from the perspective of one of the invadersGermany's late development as a modern nation meant it missed the opportunity to col...

Reducere. DescriptionFlorida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award When recalling the roots of soul music, most people are likely to name Memphis, Detroit...

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. DescriptionPuebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundre...

Reducere. No single individual did more to promote sea turtle research and conservation than Archie Carr (1909-1987). So entwined did he become with these cr...

Reducere. Grasses of the Southwest provides keys, descriptions, and illustrations to identify 73 important range grasses of the American southwest using only...

Reducere. Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that lef...

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