200 Quick Looks at Florida History

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200 QUICK LOOKS AT FLORIDA HISTORY

Learn 200 quick, painless history lessons in one thoroughly researched book. An indispensable guide for Florida students, newcomers, and old-timers alike.

From the back cover:
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 present. The distilled version is packed with unusual and little-known facts and stories.

---America's first convent became a Florida military barracks
---The first tourist attraction in Florida featured ostrich racing
---The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in Florida

"This distilled version of 10,000 years of Florida history is packed with thousands of unusual and little-known facts and stories." --Florida History and the Arts

" A world—or should we say state?—of interesting stuff resides in this book, which is indexed for quick reference to people and places. A truly unique collection of Florida history." —The Tampa Tribune

"James Clark...knows a lot of oddball stories about how Florida turned out the way it did because of scheming, stupidity or happenstance." --Sarasota Herald Tribune

Paperback $12.95
ISBN: 1-56164-200-2
Size: 6 x 9
208 Pages
40 b&w photos

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