""A fascinating shoreline tour from Fernandina’s Amelia Island on the Atlantic to Pensacola on the Gulf."--Tampa Tribune"After reading this book, you might feel like jumping in your car and touring the lighthouses on the Florida coasts. If so, you’ll be in luck, because Florida Lighthouses contains maps and directions for reaching each lighthouse, plus information about tours and fees."--Florida Times-Union"McCarthy covers the construct ..."
"Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangle all are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida s coasts. There are as many shipwreck stories as there are thousands of Florida shipwrecks. This book offers thirty of the most interesting of them from the tale of young Fontaneda, who wrecked in 1545 and was held captive by Indians for 17 years, to the story of the Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which was ..."
""A fascinating shoreline tour from Fernandina’s Amelia Island on the Atlantic to Pensacola on the Gulf."--Tampa Tribune"After reading this book, you might feel like jumping in your car and touring the lighthouses on the Florida coasts. If so, you’ll be in luck, because Florida Lighthouses contains maps and directions for reaching each lighthouse, plus information about tours and fees."--Florida Times-Union"McCarthy covers the construct ..."
"Briefly describes the lives and contributions of more than fifty notable African-Americans in Florida, from 1528 to the present, in such fields as education, politics, journalism, sports, music, and religion."
"This study considers how aggregate demand for Army family services will change in the future and identifies long-range issues posed by the changes in Army families."
""A collection of tales boiling with real estate dealers, egret poachers, rumrunners, mango growers, sportsmen, land grubbers, murderers, and mosquitoes. First printed in The Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, these stories constitute a rip-snorting glimpse back to a South Florida that now exists only in memory."--Miami Herald"Reflects the same concerns found in her better-known non-fiction work--a fascination with t ..."
Florida Stories by KevinMccarthy Paperback, 326 Pages, Published 1989 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-0910-0, ISBN: 0-8130-0910-3
""A potpourri of short stories that serves up more style and substance, more suspense and sensuality, than most of the titles on the current best-seller list."—Tampa Tribune Like an album of snapshots from a tropical vacation, this collection of seventeen stories captures Florida places and characters transformed by the literary imagination of some of America’s finest short fiction writers like Stephen Crane. The stories range widely ac ..."