Browse by Subject: Florida

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A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper

The life and times of the first female head of the Seminole Tribe, the most decorated member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

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Maximum Insight: Selected Columns

Selected columns by the St. Petersburg Times writer, syndicated in over 200 papers nationwide, on topics ranging from race relations and individual responsibility, to education, politics, and a civil society.

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The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters

The story of a group of African American landscape painters active in the '60s and '70s who are only now coming to be recognized for their distinctive vision and craft. Monroe's account includes reproductions of 63 of the Highwaymen paintings.

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Florida's Golden Age of Souvenirs, 1890-1930

A guidebook and showcase of travel treasures purchased by tourists in Florida, primarily wealthy northerners, from 1890-1930, the golden age of Florida tourism when souvenirs were works of art.

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The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida

Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and drawings, this authoritative yet readable book describes the fossil vertebrates found in Florida--many unique to the state--and summarizes more than 100 years of paleontological discoveries and research.

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An Early Florida Adventure Story: The Fray Andrés de San Miguel Account

This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida’s Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of a teenager who journeyed from Spain to Mexico, Havana, and Florida, presenting an inside view of the sailing experience in the sixteenth century and insight into the ambitions, concerns, and religiosity of his fellow Spaniards.

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Flora of Florida, Volume I: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms

The first of a proposed eight-volume comprehensive reference to the more than 3,800 vascular plants, native and non-native, known to occur growing wild in the state, this fully-illustrated guide provides descriptions of all species of ferns and

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The Liguus Tree Snails of South Florida

Some of the most beautiful and vivid shells in the world are found not on the beaches but in the trees of south Florida. This colorfully illustrated book offers for the first time a comprehensive survey of these rare snails and their shells. Written in an

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Up for Grabs: A Trip Through Time and Space in the Sunshine State

A wandering Floridian who made his way home in the early 1970s, John Rothchild writes about the state with the savvy of a native and the perspective of an outsider. His personal and historical travelogue reads alternately like a litany of 20th-century ills and a Monty Python rendering of the Great American Dream. In Florida, both versions are true.

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The Everglades: An Environmental History

The first environmental history of what is considered by many to be the most endangered ecosystem in North America. Begins with the Everglades’ geologic origins and covers the period of early habitation by Native Americans,