Local and family history, nostalgia

The building of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway extension over water to Key West from 1905 to 1916 was s triumph of engineering and logistics.

This comprehensive look at the first humans in Florida combines contemporary archaeology, the writings of early European explorers, and experiments to present a vivid history of the state's original inhabitants.

Near the end of the nineteenth century, Standard Oil millionaire Henry Morrison Flagler ventured to St.

Florida has been the home of many unusual characters throughout the years.

A chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers.

Florida has its own special way of celebrating the holiday.

Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged.

Floridaland of perpetual sunshine, open spaces, and endless blue skies perfect for flying.

Learn 200 quick, painless history lessons in one thoroughly researched book.

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Nature's Steward chronicles the development of southwest Florida using the modern-day Conservancy of Southwest Florida as the lens through which to examine environmental history.

Everyone knows of Columbus and Ponce de Leon, but the name of Menendez is not as familiar.

From the union of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers at the Georgia-Florida state line, the mighty Apalachicola River flows unimpeded for about 100 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.

For those who believe that the best way to understand someone is to walk a mile in his or her shoes, Florida's rich history features those whose footwear ranged from Native American moccasins to astronauts' boots.

Anyone looking to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world for a while is invited to sit back and enjoy a leisurely trip down one of the best-known and most beloved rivers in the country.

Come aboard!

Discover Florida, with its unique geography and exciting historyfrom ancient gold to modern real estate speculationby journeying along its highways.

The Caloosahatchee flows from near Lake Okeechobee for to its outlet at Fort Myers on the southwest Gulf coast of Florida.

In this third book in a series on the history of the Florida Keys, John Viele tells the true story of the Florida Keys wreckers, the daring seamen who sailed out in fair weather or foul to save lives and property from ships cast up on the unforgiving Florida Reef in the passage south of the Florida Keys, one of the most dangerous in the world, having claimed thousands of ships and lives.

The Straits of Florida is a 110-mile sea passage between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean bordered on the northern side by the Florida Keys and the Florida Reef.

Today, on the Keys between Key West and the mainland, some 40,000 residents and thousands of visitors fish, swim, sail, and dive in the crystal clear waters off a tropical reef; relax in the sun and cooling trade wind breezes; and sleep in the air-conditioned comfort of their homes and hotel rooms.

Simonton, Duval, Eaton, Whitehead, Southard, Trumanif you discover how these Key West streets, and all the others, came by their names, you will know much of the history of this little island at the nethermost end of the continental United States.

Whether you start your journey down the Seminole Trail as an armchair adventurer or seek to visit the sites in person, this unique guide will give greater understanding to the prominent role of Seminole Indians in the place we call Florida.

A landmark work on one of the most important but least-written-about Indian wars, Hunted Like a Wolf chronicles the Second Seminole War.

Between 1539 and 1543 Hernando de Soto led an army of six hundred armored men on a desperate journey of almost four thousand miles through the wilds of La Florida, what is now the southeastern United States, facing the problems of hostile natives, inadequate supplies, and the harsh elements, as they left a path of destruction in their search for gold and glory in the name of God.

Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 began as a parade in honor of the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto and has evolved into an annual Mardi Gras-like festival attended by four million with more than 100 cultural events raising money for nonprofit organizations in San Antonio, Texas.

Adam writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his charactershis touch is that of a master in the making.

Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years.

Former RCMP Sergeant Charlie Scheideman, author of Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie, is back with the same wry humour and a new collection of incredible stories drawn from his twenty-seven years of patrolling the small communities of the interior of British Columbia.

Billy Proctor, resident legend of Echo Bay, BC, recounts almost a centurys worth of experience with this collection of stories, memories and local knowledge of the central BC coast region around Blackfish Sound.

From a young age, I wanted to trace my familys history, hoping to get back to the very beginning of modern mankind seemingly a ridiculous and impossible task!

In Central West Africa over a quarter of a million year ago, mankind evolved to become the very first known genetically and anatomically modern humans - Homo Sapiens.

I wanted this book to be the story of the people, the conditions they faced, and how they met their challenges.

Join the author in reliving Sylvania's over 180 years of history from footpaths to expressways and beyond, in volume six of an eight-volume set.

Mississippis Civil War Generals covers the lives of the forty-six Mississippians who reached the rank of general during the four-year struggle that divided the nation.

Eight chilling stories of crime, disaster and unusual deaths from southeastern Pennsylvania.

California matters, both as a place and as an idea.

Boston Congregationalist ministers Charles Chauncy (1705-87) and Jonathan Mayhew (1720-66) were significant political as well as religious leaders in colonial and revolutionary New England.

Valuable Partnerships: Cooperation, Innovation, and the Future of Municipal Texas bridges rich scholarship and practical application to produce an important reference for local government scholars and practitioners alike by covering the dynamic approaches altering how Texas municipalities operate.

Take another walk down memory lane to the old Bronx with the late historian, Bill Twomey.

The letters are worn thin from rereading and sharing with family and friends, and age has discolored them.

One Square Mile: A History of Trenton Junction, New Jersey offers a view of small-town, rural American life at the turn of the century.

With modern weather forecasting, we can monitor, track, and predict the path of hurricanes like never before.

A wall that was five feet high and built of concrete, rock, and mortar split Crane, Texas, in half more than a half century ago-with blacks on one side and whites on the other.

'Groundbreaking' Tara BrachDepression.

'a delightful and funny memoir of her family's crazy life in the English countryside.

'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed.

History, completed.

From the acclaimed author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners brings together a diverse and fascinating selection of garden writing that spans the centuries, the seasons and the species.