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| Author | : Loren G. Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780813012285 |
The author relates his family's history of surviving on the edge of poverty on the outskirts of the Florida Everglades
| Author | : Glen Simmons |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2010-09-05 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0813047056 |
Few people today can claim a living memory of Florida's frontier Everglades. Glen Simmons, who has hunted alligators, camped on hammock-covered islands, and poled his skiff through the mangrove swamps of the glades since the 1920s, is one who can. Together with Laura Ogden, he tells the story of backcountry life in the southern Everglades from his youth until the establishment of the Everglades National Park in 1947. During the economic bust of the late ‘20s, when many natives turned to the land to survive, Simmons began accompanying older local men into Everglades backcountry, the inhospitable prairie of soft muck and mosquitoes, of outlaws and moonshiners, that rings the southern part of the state. As Simmons recalls life in this community with humor and nostalgia, he also documents the forgotten lifestyles of south Florida gladesmen. By necessity, they understood the natural features of the Everglades ecosystem. They observed the seasonal fluctuations of wildlife, fire, and water levels. Their knowledge of the mostly unmapped labyrinth of grassy water enabled them to serve as guides for visiting naturalists and scientists. Simmons reconstructs this world, providing not only fascinating stories of individual personalities, places, and events, but an account that is accurate, both scientifically and historically, of one of the least known and longest surviving portions of the American frontier.
| Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 1991-07-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0679734058 |
Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.
| Author | : David Noland |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2009-10-07 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0307492095 |
A travel writer describes in detail forty of the world's most singular and offbeat travel adventures, from paddling by sea kayak around the fjords of Greenland to an elephant safari through Botswana, detailing tour outfitters, gear, health tips, and more.
| Author | : Maureen Sullivan-Hartung |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2010-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1614231281 |
This book is a collection of quirky and fun stories about the history of Everglades City. Drawing from the author's time as a reporter for the Everglades City Echo, this book will chronicle lesser-known stories about the area. The book discusses the original pioneer families of Everglades City, and the time when this city was the governing center of Collier County. It goes on to chronicle colorful characters from the area, local landmarks, and the annual Seafood Festival that draws 20,000 people to the city every year.
| Author | : Tom Shirley |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2012-09-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813042771 |
As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades. In Everglades Patrol, Shirley shares the stories from his beat--an ecosystem larger than the state of Rhode Island. His vivid narrative includes dangerous tales of hunting down rogue gladesmen and gators and airboat chases through the wetlands in search of illegal hunters and moonshiners. During his thirty-year career (1955-1985), Shirley saw the Glades go from frontier wilderness to "ruination" at the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers. He watched as dikes cut off the water flow and controlled floods submerged islands that had supported man and animals for 3,000 years, killing much of the wildlife he was sworn to protect.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1928 |
| Genre | : Arcadia (Mich.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William McKeen |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2012-09-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813042798 |
Florida can seem like a child's dream of paradise: endless sunny days, trips to the beach to swim and build sandcastles, bike riding without a jacket in the middle of January, and magical themeparks only a short drive away. But what was life really like for those who grew up here? During a recent reunion, writers Bill McKeen, Tim Dorsey, and Jeff Klinkenberg found themselves lamenting that so many of their childhood memories were fading away. For them, and for many, Florida is not just a place people go to, it’s where they come from. That can mean many things to many people, as the stellar cast of writers, journalists, and musicians eloquently reveal in Homegrown in Florida. This utterly satisfying and powerful anthology aims at the heart of the glories of childhood and the pain of growing up. Both a celebration of the exotic, untamed wilderness of a youth filled with moss-draped oaks and citrus fields, evergreen winters and palmetto fronds, and a reminder that innocence often gave way to experience as bike paths became private developments, and swimming holes were paved over by interstates, Homegrown in Florida is filled with tears and laughter alike. Featuring contributions from Carl Hiaasen, Tom Petty, Zora Neale Hurston, Michael Connelly, and many more, this is a book for every child of old Florida, and every child at heart.
| Author | : Steve Lamb |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2015-01-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781505720396 |
Marijuana turned a Florida teen into a millionaire fugitive
| Author | : William McKeen |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2011-10-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307592049 |
True stories of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in Key West in the 1970s. For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompson—there was another moveable feast: Key West, Florida. The small town on the two-by-four-mile island has long been an artistic haven, a wild refuge for people of all persuasions, and the inspirational home for a league of great American writers. Some of the artists went there to be literary he-men. Some went to re-create themselves. Others just went to disappear—and succeeded. No matter what inspired the trip, Key West in the seventies was the right place at the right time, where and when an astonishing collection of artists wove a web of creative inspiration. Mile Marker Zero tells the story of how these writers and artists found their identities in Key West and maintained their friendships over the decades, despite oceans of booze and boatloads of pot, through serial marriages and sexual escapades, in that dangerous paradise. Unlike the “Lost Generation” of Paris in the twenties, we have a generation that invented, reinvented, and found itself at the unending cocktail party at the end—and the beginning—of America’s highway.
