Florida Nature Coast
Author: W. Horace Carter
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (NC)
Published: 1993-04
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780937866405
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →About early settlers & today's wildlife & fishermen on the Florida West Coast.
Lanterna Rally
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Tales of the Florida Coast
Speedway to Sunshine
Author: Seth Bramson
Publisher: Boston Mills Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781550463583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A revised and expanded illustrated history of the railroad from its inception, through the building of the Key West extension, to the present day.
A Land Remembered
Author: Patrick D. Smith
Publisher: Pineapple PressInc
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781561642236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.
Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere
Author: Samuel A. Green
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2020-03-16
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere" by Samuel A. Green is the documentation of a speech given involving a first-hand account of being on the high seas. The adventures in this book are thrilling and, at times, terrifying as readers learn about the horror that comes along with encountering pirates while helplessly out on the water. The book primarily focuses on Gulf Coast pirates, but similar stories have been told around the world.
Finding Florida
Author: T. D. Allman
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0802120768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.
Florida Pirates
Author: James F. Kaserman
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781609494193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The coast of southwest Florida, with its shallow waters, inlets, and mangrove islands provides the setting and backdrop for a variety of pirates, privateers, and independents. The history of this region and Florida as a whole is influenced largely by the illegal activities of piracy. Piracy has a long and rich tradition in this area dating from before the formation of America through the infamous prohibition era. Educators, authors, and pirate enthusiasts James and Sarah Kaserman recount the stories, legends and myths that surround piracy in Florida. Telling the tales of Anne Bonny, Calico Jack Rackham, Civil War smugglers and prohibition rum runners, the authors provide a compelling narrative of the historically dangerous waters around Southwest Florida and beyond.
True Tales of the Florida West Coast
Forgotten Tales of Florida
Author: Bob Patterson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 1625842651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With such a rich and significant history, its only natural that some of the best stories from the Sunshine State have been forgotten over time. Thankfully, master storyteller and St. Augustine resident Bob Patterson offers this collection of the strangest, most fascinating stories and legends in Floridas history from coast to coast, swamp to swamp. Enjoy the saga of William Ellis, a North Florida nature whisperer who escaped from his nursing home with the help of his varmint friends; step into the murk and mystery of the vanishing tribes of the Everglades; and could there really be gator-hungry sharks lurking in the St. Johns River? These stories and so many more await when you explore the Forgotten Tales of Florida.
Mullet on the Beach
Author: Patricia C. Griffin
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2017-11-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1947372394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
