Download or read book Camping and Cruising in Florida written by James Alexander Henshall and published by Cincinnati, R. Clarke & Company. This book was released on 1884 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camping and Cruising in Florida Classic Reprint written by James Alexander Henshall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Camping and Cruising in Florida In the following pages of personal adventure I have endeavored to give a faithful account of two winters spent in Southern Florida, as viewed from the stand point of an angler, a sportsman, a yachtsman, a natural ist, and a physician. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Camping and Cruising in Florida written by James Alexander Henshall and published by Florida Classics. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camp Life in Florida written by Charles Hallock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Camp Life in Florida: A Handbook for Sportsmen and Settlers Jacksonville is the largest city in the State, and although of recent growth compared with other towns, contains about inhabitants, and is the centre of trade. Several lines of small river steamers form the means of communication with the interior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Swamp written by Michael Grunwald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land. The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will; in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished. Now America wants its swamp back. Grunwald shows how a new breed of visionaries transformed Everglades politics, producing the $8 billion rescue plan. That plan is already the blueprint for a new worldwide era of ecosystem restoration. And this book is a cautionary tale for that era. Through gripping narrative and dogged reporting, Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline.
Download or read book Stolen Water written by W. Hodding Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riotous journey through America's most controversial, beautifully unapproachable, and abused wilderness -- the Florida Everglades. In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law a $7.8 billion restoration plan for the Everglades that garnered national attention and has since become America's touchstone for environmental issues. Enter W. Hodding Carter, a man already bemused by the state of Florida and determined to see what, if any, progress has been made with the Everglades. For reasons unclear even to him, this amazing, remote, mosquito-infested, hard-to-love region has captured Carter's imagination and won't let go. So, for the past few years, Carter has examined the Everglades from all angles -- social, political, cultural, environmental -- culminating in an ungodly canoe trip through the heart of the Everglades. But this being Hodding Carter -- a man who sailed a Viking ship dressed in serge for one book and followed in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark for another -- a canoe trip the length of the Everglades is merely the tip of the iceberg. Stolen Water finds him adopting a manatee, and auditioning to be a mermaid at Weeki Wachee Springs -- not enough that he reports on things, he actually has to do them, too, often to hilarious effect. In the end, though, his tireless reporting reveals the Everglades as never before. Not content with merely observing, he also interviews all the key players, from environmentalists to sugar farmers to Senator Bob Graham, and gives them just enough rope to hang themselves. Always humane, often controversial, and highly readable, Hodding Carter has brought to life this murky, alluring place through his powerful eyewitness account and swampy mishaps. Stolen Water is narrative nonfiction at its best, from one of our most talented and funny writers.
Download or read book America s Alligator written by Doug Alderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have long been fascinated by the American alligator. Ever since humans arrived on the continent more than 15,000 years ago, the American alligator has been both feared and revered, celebrated and scorned, and often hunted for food and hide. Once tourism began to take hold in the South as a real industry, especially in Florida, the alligator took on iconic and even mythical status. “One of the most picturesque features of Florida has always been that uncouth and fierce-looking reptile called the alligator,” wrote Nevin O. Winter in 1918. “Everybody who comes down here to the peninsula has an ambition to see one in the wild.” Seminole Indians wrestled alligators for show. Alligator souvenirs and mascots often took what people feared—a sharp-toothed predator—and made it into something cute and cuddly. Alligator-themed songs were recorded and released, including “See You Later Alligator” by Bill Haley and His Comets. Hollywood into created alligator-themed movies such as Alligator People. Alligators were also reportedly kept in the White House under two presidencies. And perhaps the most unusual alligator story was one that helped to nab Ma Barker and her son Fred when they were hiding out along Florida’s Lake Weir. America’s Alligator examines the colorful and sometimes conflicted relationship our species has had with Alligator mississippiensis. Doug Alderson explores the country’s rich alligator mythology and how it inspired various forms of art, stories, photography, tourism and even humor.
Download or read book A Light in the Wilderness written by James D. Snyder and published by Past Perfect Florida Histor. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although nearly 7 million people live along the southeast Florida coast, scarcely three generations ago it was a wild, lawless frontier ruled by bears, snakes and alligators. But when a lighthouse was built at Jupiter Inlet in 1860, it became the hub for hunters, surveyors, Civil War blockade runners, Union gunboats and pioneer farmers. A Light in the Wilderness, with over seventy rare photos, maps and letters, tells how southeast Florida survived the catharsis of the Civil War, how the lighthouse at Jupiter drew the first families into its orbit, and how it became a key link in the steamboat-railroad path that led people to the "Garden of Eden."
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Download or read book Camping and Cruising in Florida written by James Alexander Henshall and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... A LIST OF BIRDS OBSERVED BY THE AUTHOR IN FLORIDA. [This list is only a partial one, as many small species, not recognized by the writer, and not familiar to him by sight, were not secured for identification, as it was not his intention, at the time, to make a complete list. The arrangement of the families, and the nomenclature, is that of Ridgway's "Catalogue of the Birds of North America' (188U).] APPENDIX. 243 6. HIRUNDINID.E. 15. Progne subis (Linn.) Buird.--Purple Martin. 18. Tachycineta bicolor (Vieill.) Caban.-- White-bellied Swallow. 7. TANAGRID DEGREESE. 17. Pyranga sestiva (Linn.) Vieill.--Summer Red-bird. 8. FRINGILLID DEGREESE. 18. Astragalinus tristis (Linn.) Cab.--American Goldfinch. 19. Passerculus sandwichensis savanna (Wils.) Ridg.--Savanna Sparrow. 20. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linn.) Vieill.--Chcwink. 21. CardinaliS virginianus (Briss.) Bp.--Cardinal Grosbeak. 9. ICTERID DEGREES. 22. Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linn.) Sw.-- Bobolink. 23. Molothrus ater (Bodd.) Gray.--Cow-bird. 24. AgelSBUS phconiceus (Linn.) Vieill.--Red-shouldered Black-bird. 25. Sturnella magna (Linn.) Sw.--Meadow Lark. 26. Icterus galbula (Linn.) Cones.-- Baltimore Oriole. 27. Quiscalus major Vieill.--Boat-tailed Graekle. 28. Quiscalus purpureu8 (Bartr.) Leioht.--Purple Graekle. 10. CORVID DEGREES. 29. Corvus frugivorus floridanus (Baird) Hidg.--Florida Crow. 30. Corvus ossifragus Wils.--FUh Crow. 31. Cyanocitta cristata (Linn.) Strickl.--Blue Jay. 82. Aphelocoma floridana (Bartr.) Cab.--Florida Jay. 11. TYRANNISE. 33. Tyrannus dominicensis (Gm.) Keich.--Gray King-bird. 34. SayomiS fuSCU8 (Gmel.) Baird.--Phcebe-bird. 12. TROCHILID.E. 35. Trochilus COlubris Linn.--Ruby-throated Humming-bird. 13. CAPRIMULGIILE. 33. Antrostomus carolinensis (Gm.) Gouid.--Chu
Download or read book A New Guide to Old Florida Attractions written by Doug Alderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Guide to Old Florida Attraction, 2nd edition is a nostalgic journey through old Florida where mermaids still perform in the waters of Weeki Wachee Springs and the carillon bells of the Bok Towers continue to echo across Iron Mountain near Lake Wales. Monstrous reptiles are ever abundant at Gatorland, Gatorama and dolphins continue to leap at Marineland. The first edition was first place winner of the 2017 Royal Palm Literary Award for published travel book and top five finalist for 2017 book of the year by the Florida Writers Association. The second edition revisits a pride of lions in southeast Florida’s Lion Country Safari and concrete statues at Goofy Gold in Panama City Beach. New destinations include the Citrus Tower in Clermont, the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami to name just a few. A New Guide to Old Florida Attractions, 2nd edition takes you to these places and more on an unforgettable journey across the Sunshine State. Discover what Florida's golden age of tourism was, and still is, all about― magical and beautiful.
Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 3054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camping for Boys Classic Reprint written by H. W. Gibson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Camping for Boys Boy-life and self-government - Fiske. Association Press, boy-training - Symposium. Association Press. Youth - Hall. Appleton and Com any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Black Gold and Silver Sands written by James D. Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abiding faith and dogged determination were the main motivators as a handful of hardscrabble farmers began transforming tracts of sand, saw grass, swamp and muck land into the agribusiness infrastructure that underpins Palm Beach County, Florida today. Black Gold and Silver Sands, with over 250 photographs from museums and family collections, tells the county’s dramatic history of farming from the days of the hardy pioneers who grew pumpkins and pineapples on the shores of Lake Worth. In this handsome coffee table book, you’ll read diaries, letters and personal interviews that describe the faith and fortitude of those who endured sun, spoilage, frost, floods, hurricanes and other hardships in building what would soon become one of the nation’s most agriculturally productive counties.
Download or read book Emancipation Betrayed written by Paul Ortiz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paul Ortiz's lyrical and closely argued study introduces us to unknown generations of freedom fighters for whom organizing democratically became in every sense a way of life. Ortiz changes the very ways we think of Southern history as he shows in marvelous detail how Black Floridians came together to defend themselves in the face of terror, to bury their dead, to challenge Jim Crow, to vote, and to dream."—David R. Roediger, author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past “Emancipation Betrayed is a remarkable piece of work, a tightly argued, meticulously researched examination of the first statewide movement by African Americans for civil rights, a movement which since has been effectively erased from our collective memory. The book poses a profound challenge to our understanding of the limits and possibilities of African American resistance in the early twentieth century. This analysis of how a politically and economically marginalized community nurtures the capacity for struggle speaks as much to our time as to 1919.”—Charles Payne, author of I’ve Got the Light of Freedom
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 2132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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