More comprehensive than ever, the Complete Guide to Florida Gardening explains in step-by-step fashion how to create one's own personal outdoor paradise. Addressing the needs of gardening notvices, seasoned hobbyists, and horitculture professionals alike, Stan DeFreitas has, once again, created a reference book that no Florida gardener should be without. Explains in step-by-step fashion how to create one's own personal outdoor paradise. Addressing...

In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that...

When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only...

The first geology of Florida to be published in more than thirty years, this volume brings together leading geoscience authorities from academia, state and federal geological surveys, and private industry in a liberally illustrated, up-to-date summary and analysis. Early chapters introduce the origin and development of the unique landscape of the Florida peninsula and panhandle. Succeeding chapters cover geomorphology, stratigraphy, plate tectonics,...

As if Ponce de León, who happened on the peninsula in 1513, returned today to demand a quick reckoning ("Tell me what happened after I was there, but leave out the boring parts!"), Michael Gannon recounts the longest recorded history of any state in the nation in twenty-nine brisk, fully illustrated chapters. Starting with the lush green wilderness of the ancient earth, he fills the landscape with Indians, colonists, pioneers, entrepreneurs, politicians,...

Florida is one of the finest places to hunt fossls in North America. For 50 million years Florida was home to hordes to strange an wonderful animals. Their remains accumulated on rivers, springs an oceans. Today fossilized bones and teeth wash up along streams, banks and beaches and lie in limerock quarries. This book tells how and where to hunt fossils- with mapa, means of identification and the history of these fossil treasures.

Winsberg explains the forces that control Florida's weather and climate: latitude, altitude, land and water distribution, ocean currents, prevailing winds, storms, and pressure systems. He organizes the book around seasons and reports seasonal variations throughout the state, with maps, photographs, diagrams, and charts. Later chapters include advice dealing with weather hazards associated with each season, such as lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes,...

Florida has a long and complex and very interesting history, but few of us have time to read it in depth. So here are 200 quick looks at Florida's 10,000 years of history, from the arrival of the first natives to the preasent. The distilled version is packed with unusual and little-known facts and stories.