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An Early Florida Adventure Story

Author : Andrés de San Miguel (fray)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813018768
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book An Early Florida Adventure Story written by Andrés de San Miguel (fray) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among documents of Florida's Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist. One of these, the 1595 narrative by Fray Andres de San Miguel, translated by John Hann, describes the two-year odyssey of a teenager from Spain across the Atlantic to Mexico, Havana, and Florida and finally back to Spain. The future friar's account of his experiences as a young sailor brings to life the fleets of the Golden Age of Spain and reveals how those adventures would change his life forever. It also provides vivid information about the Indians of the Georgia and Florida coast." "After Andres's ship passed Cape Canaveral, it was battered by a four-day storm and separated from the fleet. The officers comandeered the only launch and escaped; the crew kept the ship afloat and improvised a box-like vessel in which 30 survivors reached shore near the mouth of the Altamaha River - more dead than alive for lack of food and water. The author offers detailed descriptions of the Guale Indians and of Mission San Pedro Mocama on Cumberland Island. He also provides vignettes of life in St. Augustine and, on his way to Havana, of encounters with South Florida Indians who came out to trade and with a gentlemanly English pirate. The adventure closes with Fray Andres's return to Cadiz, where he witnessed the 1596 British siege and burning of that port." "Only seventeen years old at the time of the voyage, Fray Andres presents a cold-eyed view of the sailing experience in the 16th century, trenchant observations on the behavior of the ship's officers and the circumstances of the survival of the crew, and insight into the ambitions, concerns, and religiosity of the Spaniards. The book includes Hann's translation of a brief introductory essay written by Fray Andres's Mexican publisher, telling of the young man's entry into the Carmelites and the accomplishments of his later life as a church architect, builder, and hydrographic expert involved in the drainage of the valley of Mexico City."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Finding Florida

Author : T. D. Allman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802120768
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Finding Florida written by T. D. Allman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.

Backcountry Lawman

Author : Bob H. Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813044293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Backcountry Lawman written by Bob H. Lee and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Bob Lee "revisits the days he spent as a fish and wildlife law enforcement officer in northeast Florida, detailing the many dangers he encountered while patrolling the waters and environs of the St. Johns River region from 1977 to 2007. With thirty years of Florida backcountry patrol experience, Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend, including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens." --from jacket flap.

A Land Remembered

Author : Patrick D Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561645826
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Gold, Galleons, and Archaeology

Author : Robert Forrest Burgess
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold, Galleons, and Archaeology written by Robert Forrest Burgess and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Jungle

Author : Harvey E. Oyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981703602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The American Jungle written by Harvey E. Oyer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's adventure stories based on actual people, places and events on the south Florida frontier during the late 19th century.

Journeys with Florida's Indians

Author : Kelley G. Weitzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813025810
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Journeys with Florida's Indians written by Kelley G. Weitzel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and culture of the native peoples of Florida, including the Timucua, Calusa, and Apalachee.

Missions to the Calusa

Author : John H Hann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813080758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Missions to the Calusa written by John H Hann and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of historical documents includes letters, reports, and accounts written by Europeans during the colonization of Southwest Florida, offering insights into Spanish contact with the Calusa.

Wakulla

Author : Kirk Munroe
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Wakulla written by Kirk Munroe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wakulla' by Kirk Munroe is a novel that begins by introducing us to Mark and Ruth Elmer's family, who recently moved from their small New England town to a plantation in Florida due to Mark's failing health. The move is made possible by the generous offer of Mrs. Elmer's uncle, and they are traveling by boat to their destination. Excitement ensues for the children as they look forward to exploring the exotic new land filled with alligators, palm trees, bread-fruit, pirates, and Indians.

Everglades Patrol

Author : Tom Shirley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813042771
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Everglades Patrol written by Tom Shirley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Flamingo Feather

Author : Kirk Munroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Flamingo Feather written by Kirk Munroe and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, 1513-1548

Author : Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813045702
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, 1513-1548 written by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Windward Road

Author : Archie Carr
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307832112
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Windward Road written by Archie Carr and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation. In addition to sea turtle biology, Carr recorded his general impressions, producing a natural history sprinkled with colorful stories.

Polygamy

Author : M. S. Pearsall
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248989
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Polygamy written by M. S. Pearsall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America "A richly sourced, elegantly written, and strikingly original interdisciplinary study of the diverse practices of polygamy in American from ca.1500 to 1900.”—John Witte Jr., Journal of Law and Religion Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy’s surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities, and segments of the American nation. Polygamy—as well as the fight against it—illuminates many touchstones of American history: the Pueblo Revolt and other uprisings against the Spanish; Catholic missions in New France; New England settlements and King Philip’s War; the entrenchment of African slavery in the Chesapeake; the Atlantic Enlightenment; the American Revolution; missions and settlement in the West; and the rise of Mormonism. Pearsall expertly opens up broader questions about monogamy’s emergence as the only marital option, tracing the impact of colonial events on property, theology, feminism, imperialism, and the regulation of sexuality. She shows that heterosexual monogamy was never the only model of marriage in North America.

Forever Young

Author : John W Young
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081304281X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Forever Young written by John W Young and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs--more than any other human. He served with NASA for more than four decades. His peers called him the "astronaut's astronaut." Enthusiasts of space exploration have long waited for John Young to tell the story of his two Gemini flights, his two Apollo missions, the first-ever Space Shuttle flight, and the first Spacelab mission. Forever Young delivers all that and more: Young's personal journey from engineering graduate to fighter pilot, to test pilot, to astronaut, to high NASA official, to clear-headed predictor of the fate of Planet Earth. Young, with the assistance of internationally distinguished aerospace historian James Hansen, recounts the great episodes of his amazing flying career in fascinating detail and with wry humor. He portrays astronauts as ordinary human beings and NASA as an institution with the same ups and downs as other major bureaucracies. He frankly discusses the risks of space travel, including what went wrong with the Challenger and Columbia shuttles. Forever Young is one of the last memoirs produced by an early American astronaut. It is the first memoir written by a chief of the NASA astronaut corps. Young's experiences and candor make this book indispensable to everyone interested in the U.S. space program.

The Unsettlement of America

Author : Anna Brickhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199729727
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Unsettlement of America written by Anna Brickhouse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unsettlement of America explores the career and legacy of Don Luis de Velasco, an early modern indigenous translator of the sixteenth-century Atlantic world who traveled far and wide and experienced nearly a decade of Western civilization before acting decisively against European settlement. The book attends specifically to the interpretive and knowledge-producing roles played by Don Luis as a translator acting not only in Native-European contact zones but in a complex arena of inter-indigenous transmission of information about the hemisphere. The book argues for the conceptual and literary significance of unsettlement, a term enlisted here both in its literal sense as the thwarting or destroying of settlement and as a heuristic for understanding a wide range of texts related to settler colonialism, including those that recount the story of Don Luis as it is told and retold in a wide array of diplomatic, religious, historical, epistolary, and literary writings from the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Tracing accounts of this elusive and complex unfounding father from the colonial era as they unfolds across the centuries, The Unsettlement of America addresses the problems of translation at the heart of his story and speculates on the implications of the broader, transhistorical afterlife of Don Luis for the present and future of hemispheric American studies.

Gold in the Keys

Author : Matthew Rief
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Gold in the Keys written by Matthew Rief and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1521, the Aztec treasure, considered to be the greatest ever assembled, vanished from the capitol city of Tenochtitlan. Almost five centuries later, former Navy SEAL Logan Dodge finds a mysterious gold coin off of a secret ledge in the Florida Keys.When he learns the origin of the coin, he goes on a mission to find and secure the treasure for the people of Mexico. But he's not the only one who's caught the scent of gold. A notorious Mexican drug cartel known as Black Venom is right on his heels and will stop at nothing to take the treasure for themselves.With the help of one of his old Navy buddies, a notorious mercenary, a beach bum Key West charter captain and a marine geologist, Logan races to find the treasure and take down the drug cartel while he's at it.Gold in the Keys is a shoot 'em up, beat 'em up, speedboat chasing, get the girl, treasure hunting romp in the Florida Keys.