Download or read book Dark Florida written by Dr. Alan N. Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida's dark side . Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too. And in the shadows, tragedy strikes. Ted Bundy leads a cast of serial killers who wrought havoc on the state. Storms spin onto its shores with landscape altering fury. Sharks lurk in the sea, and snakes and alligators lie wait in the swamps. Gangsters like Al Capone hit Miami Beach for a respite, but gangsters like Al Capone take no breaks from their trade. A woman spontaneously bursts into flames in St. Petersburg. Anthrax claims a life in Palm Beach. The Bermuda Triangle disappears vessels off the coast. Indeed, Florida knows boundless leisure, but it's just as familiar with catastrophe .

Download or read book Florida s Dark Chapters written by Michael G. Hall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out. It usually involves the common tropes we see splashed across news and social media: Disney, Miami, alligators, heat, retirees and weird people. As a result, very few people try to dig any deeper. This book explores the darkest parts of Florida's past. These stories, told out in sequential order and broken down by theme, contain everything that has come to make up the Sunshine State: from the surprising, to the weird, to the horrifying, and, in some cases, inspiring. Topics covered include Florida in the Age of Exploration, pirates, Spanish colonialism, the Seminole Wars, slavery and race relations during the Civil War, Prohibition, segregation, disco and drugs, serial killers, economic ruin, urbanism, and Florida in the age of DeSantis.

Download or read book Dark Florida written by John Brandon and published by Neri Pozza Editore. This book was released on 2015-11-13T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esiste la Florida dei parchi divertimenti, degli alberghi, delle spiagge e dei surfisti. Ed esiste la Florida della contea di Citrus, nella cosiddetta Costa della Natura, dove c’è la natura perché non ci sono parchi divertimenti né alberghi né spiagge. E dove regnano i redneck al posto dei surfisti, e piante che fioriscono e marciscono sfacciatamente al posto di giardini rigogliosi. Toby McNurse ha quattordici anni e tante ferite dentro di sé: non ha mai avuto un padre e non ha piú una madre, abita in una casa malandata con uno zio che si arrangia pulendo cose che nessuno osa pulire, dai mattatoi ai vecchi motori incrostati, e discorre incessantemente e pateticamente di suicidio. Toby frequenta la scuola locale, dove impera il professor Hibma, un uomo insicuro e confuso che riesce a pontificare per venti minuti filati sulle mostruosità del capitalismo, la rivoluzione diventata merce, i poveri che hanno ormai la pizza e l’erba assicurata, i moralisti e gli artisti che se ne fregano di tutto. Toby infrange le regole e accumula punizioni, ma senza gioia nella disobbedienza, né rabbia. Le vuote passioni dei suoi compagni di classe – musica, droga, piccoli crimini, sesso – non significano nulla per lui. La droga è una cosa patetica. I flirt, umilianti. I furti e altra robaccia simile, ridicoli. Nella classe di Toby è arrivata da poco Shelby Register, trasferitasi in Florida con il padre e la sorellina dopo la morte della mamma. Shelby è carina, sveglia, sogna di fuggire in qualche paese lontano ed è attratta da Toby, pur sapendo che quello della brava ragazza che si innamora di un teppista è il classico luogo comune. Ma per Shelby i ragazzi normali sono una noia, quindi ben venga il luogo comune. Toby, tuttavia, non è affatto un vandalo qualsiasi, un banale teppistello angosciato come tanti. Toby è un ragazzo che, nel profondo della sua anima, è piú terribile di tutti i delinquenti minorili della contea messi insieme. Un malinconico destinato a infliggere danni ben piú gravi di quelli che Shelby o il professor Hibma osano pensare, e che, al cospetto di Shelby e di Kaley Register, la sorellina di quattro anni dai capelli che scintillano come un’esca nell’acqua, sa che è giunta la sua ora... l’ora di fare finalmente quello per cui è venuto al mondo. Magnificamente scritto, inquietante, commovente e ilare insieme, Dark Florida ha rivelato sulla scena letteraria americana e internazionale il talento di John Brandon, uno scrittore capace di illuminare, con crudo e poetico realismo, il lato oscuro della gioventú odierna. «Un giovane grande scrittore che farà molta strada». San Francisco Chronicle «Con Dark Florida John Brandon si aggiunge alla schiera di quegli scrittori che non smettono di ricordarci che il mondo reale è molto piú inquietante della letteratura. Il risultato è una grande storia con una voce eccezionale, ricca di personaggi che risultano veri proprio perché estremi». New York Times «John Brandon è uno scrittore dalla prosa infallibile – a metà strada tra Denis Johnson ed Elmore Leonard». Davy Rothbart «Dark Florida è un romanzo incantevole, con un tocco di dolente ilarità... Fa sorridere anche quando infligge un colpo al cuore, ed è uno dei migliori libri mai scritti sull’adolescenza». Dan Chaon

Download or read book Florida Highways written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by "Florida highways official detour bulletin, " Feb. 1942-

Download or read book Dark Waters Starry Skies written by Jeffrey Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. This is the central plotline running through this page-turning history beginning with the Japanese Operation I-Go and the American ambush of Admiral Yamamoto and continuing on to the Allied invasion of New Georgia, northwest of Guadalcanal in the middle of the Solomon Islands and the location of a major Japanese base. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy. Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before.

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the United States National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beast in Florida written by Marvin Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A symbolic embodiment of racial violence and hatred, “The Beast” openly prowled the nation between the Civil War and the civil rights movement. The reasons it appeared varied, with psychological, political, and economic dynamics all playing a part, but the outcome was always brutal--if not deadly. From the bombing of Harriette and Harry T. Moore’s home on Christmas Day to Willie James Howard’s murder, from the Rosewood massacre to the Newberry Six lynchings, Marvin Dunn offers an encyclopedic catalogue of The Beast’s rampages in Florida. Instead of simply taking snapshots of incidents, Dunn provides context for a century’s worth of racial violence by examining communities over time. Crucial insights from interviews with descendants of both perpetrators and victims shape this study of Florida’s grim racial history. Rather than pointing fingers and placing blame, The Beast in Florida allows voices and facts to speak for themselves, facilitating a conversation on the ways in which racial violence changed both black and white lives forever. With this comprehensive and balanced look at racially motivated events, Dunn reveals the Sunshine State’s too-often forgotten—or intentionally hidden—past. The result is a panorama of compelling human stories: its emergent dialogue challenges conceptions of what created and maintained The Beast.

Download or read book Sunshine in the Dark written by Susan J. Fernández and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has been the location and subject of hundreds of feature films, from Cocoanuts (1929) to Monster (2004). Portraying the state and its people from the silent era to the present, these films have explored the multitude of Florida images and clichés that have captured the public's imagination--a nature lover's paradise, a wildlife refuge, a tourist destination, home to the "cracker," and a haven for the retired, the rich, the immigrant, and the criminal. Sunshine in the Dark is the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida's extraordinary scenery, characters, and history on celluloid. Historians Fernández and Ingalls have identified more than 300 films about Florida--many of them shot on location in the state--to analyze how filmmakers from the Marx Brothers and John Huston to Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola have portrayed the state and its people. Prior to the 1960s, cinematic trips to Florida usually brought happy endings in movies like Moon Over Miami (1942), but since the 1970s, films like Scarface (1982) have emphasized the state's menacing aspects. In the authors' analysis of the films, which examines location settings, plotlines, and characters, they find a bevy of Florida stereotypes among the leading characters--from the struggling crackers in The Yearling (1946) to the drug-addicted con man in Adaptation (2002). Featuring more than 100 still photographs from movies, as well as filmographies by year and genre, the book is an encyclopedic resource for movie fans and anyone interested in Florida popular culture.

Download or read book Finding a Million Star Hotel written by Bob Mizon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Mizon, one of the world’s best known campaigners against the veil of light pollution that has taken away the starry sky from most of the world’s population, takes readers to a hundred places in the UK and the USA where the wonders of the night sky might still be enjoyed in perfect or near-perfect night skies. Visiting small hotels and simple campsites, and savoring vast dark-sky reserves where the night sky is actively protected, The Million-Star Hotel celebrates the black skies of yesteryear – which may become a reality for more and more of us as modern technology reins in lighting and puts it only where needed. How can you prepare for your stay beneath the stars? What astronomy can you do during the daytime? What kind of equipment will you need? Questions such as these are answered, and if town dwellers return inspired – and, Bob hopes, also inspired to look with fresh eyes at their own local lighting – there is enough information here for them to equip themselves for some urban astronomy too.

Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My American Harp written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.

Download or read book The Train Dispatcher written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Florida Public Works written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Macrolepidoptera of the World Noctuiformes written by Adalbert Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Macrolepidoptera of the World written by Adalbert Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America written by Frank Michler Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: