Al Burt's Florida by Al Burt
This portrait of Florida combines vignettes of notable Floridians with those of the state's many special places. It dwells on the smaller places that are seen as the anchors of old Florida, and on the people who do their best to preserve them.-
Voices of the Apalachicola
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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
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DEATH in the EVERGLADES
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Jacksonville
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Losing It All to Sprawl
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The Everglades
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Manatee Insanity
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The New Deal in South Florida
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Paving Paradise
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Balancing Evils Judiciously: the Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley
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Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State
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A Most Disorderly Court
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Frank Lloyd Wright'S Florida Southern College
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Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators
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The Tropic of Cracker
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Paradise Lost?
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Embry-Riddle at War
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The Columbia Restaurant
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Seasons of Real Florida
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Claude Pepper and Ed Ball
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In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew
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MAKING WAVES: FEMALE ACTIVISTS in TWENTIETH-CENTURY FLORIDA
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Come to My Sunland
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Government in the Sunshine State
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Sunshine Paradise
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Florida's Space Coast
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The Enduring Seminoles
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Castles in the Sand
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The Wide Brim
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Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
Al Burt worked as a journalist for forty-five years, the last twenty-two at the Miami Herald. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, he was a freelance contributor to many magazines, including The Nation and Historic Preservation, and the author of several books, among them Florida: A Place in the Sun, Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes, and Al Burt's Florida: Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers, which was awarded the 1998 Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Book Award. In his honor, the 1,000 Friends of Florida established the annual Al Burt Award for Florida journalism.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780813015422 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813015421 |
| Title | Al Burt's Florida |
| Author | Al Burt |
| Series | The Florida History And Culture Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| Year published | 1997-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |