This book answers long lost questions of Flagler’s Key West extension that other histories steer around. Bramson is always the one with the answers and, thank goodness, he’s created this volume to answer just how the extension was created, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Books
Florida Politics In The Gilded Age, 1877 1893 by Edward C. Williamson My rating: 4 of 5 stars A terrific and balanced study of Florida politics before 1877 and just after 1893. Unlike others I find slanted to the Democrat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Manatees: Our Vanishing Mermaids by M. Timothy O’Keefe My rating: 5 of 5 stars Tim O’Keefe’s ‘Manatees: Our Vanishing Mermaids’ is an excellent overview of our Florida manatee. Covering history, food, reproduction, locations, etc. This is a simple over view.There[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four Centuries of Florida Ranching by George H. Dacy My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was published in 1940 before two significant happenings took place. One was World War II which led to the other, the Florida Legislature[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy And Business In Nineteenth Century America by Joseph A. Fry My rating: 4 of 5 stars A very thorough writing of the activities of Henry Sanford during his professional life. The book is broken up into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This undated postcard shows the Bahia Mar Yacht basin, the home of the famed Travis McGee. He lived at slip F-18 on the Busted Flush. John D. MacDonald created the hero of McGee and wrote 21 novels to tell his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Date with a Dead Man by Brett Halliday My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Brett Halliday” was really David Dresser. Dresser wrote teh series from 1938 to 1959. This is the first book after Dresser written by a ghost writer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the July 4th, 1931 parade in Punta Gorda! Here comes the Coca Cola Bottling Works float! This is from ‘Our Fascinating Past – Charlotte Harbor: The Later Years’. This is a terrific book of the the history of this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
History of Brevard County Vol. 1 by Jerrell H. Schoffner My rating: 5 of 5 stars This first volume of the History of Brevard County is as excellent as one would suspect when written and composed by Jerrell Schofner. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Something you’ll rarely find these days – Comic books in a store! This is the interior of the Naval hospital store in Naval Air Station Pensacola where, to the right hand side of the photo, you’ll see a spinny rack[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hernando de Soto among the Apalachee by Charles R. Ewen & John H. Hamm My rating: 5 of 5 stars A terrific literal mapping out of DeSoto’s trek across Florida and his visit near Tallahassee. Very thorough and lots of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Saint in Miami by Leslie Charteris My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an outstanding book for many reasons. It’s the first Charteris book I’ve read and I must seek more. The writing is very good.The characters are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…