Describes the sights, restaurants, hotels, and cultural activities, and offers advice on what to see, where to eat and stay, and what to do
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence.
"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Florida"--
Provides an overview of Florida history, from pre-history to the present.
Introduces the diverse places, animals, plants, and people of the Sunshine State, from the centuries-old homes and forts of Pensacola to the tiny Key deer that chew on mangroves on Big Pine Key.
This book was created to capture and preserve those memories, and to point out that for many, Florida is not just a place people go to, it's where they come from.
This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching. word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Florida.
"First cloth printing, 2013. First paperback printing, 2018."
This handy guide includes comprehensive locator maps, listings of trip essentials, and useful warnings about possible dangers such as poisonwood sap.
It is also the dramatic story of how tourism begat development, how development begat sprawl, and how this coastal corridor, almost out of the blue, created Florida's original year-round residential downtowns with the power to transform how ...
This Weird take on the Sunshine State offers authentic history as well as wild rumors, myths and wacky legends ("South Florida Sun Sentinel").