Pineapple Press imprint: 212 books

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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015

A collection of writings about Florida by those who lived or traveled here. Includes William Bartram, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zane Grey, and James Patterson. < < Previous in series [Next in series > >][Next in series _] [See all of the books...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

This third, and final, volume in the Pineapple Anthology of Florida Writers includes Samuel Coleridge and Oliver Goldsmith, who never saw Florida, but used it in their poems. Several writers, such as Henry James and William Dean Howells, helped expose Florida to the nation. H. L. Mencken reported...
by James C Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015

This is the first in a series of collections of fiction and nonfiction about Florida by legendary writers who came here—some to escape the chilly North, some to find freedom, and some to investigate what the fuss was all about. From Audubon in 1834 to Dave Barry in 1990, these writers reveal Florida's...

John and William Bartram

Travelers in Early America

by Sandra Wallus Sammons
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

A juvenile biography of father and son, John and William Bartram, naturalists who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in America. The Bartrams were America's first native botanists, father and son travelers, plant hunters, and master gardeners. They traveled the east coast and observed...
by Sandra Sammons
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she...

The Two Henrys

Henry Plant and Henry Flagler and Their Railroads

by Sandra W Sammons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

They shared first names. They both first came to Florida looking for a healthy place for their wives. And they both fell in love with the place and with its potential. Henry Plant and Henry Flagler also shared passions for railroads and hotels—and they both ignored the word "impossible." Henry...
by Sandra Sammons
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015

An exciting biography about the man who changed Florida's east coast with his hotels and his Florida East Coast Railway. Henry Morrison Flagler was already a millionaire when he first visited Florida in 1878. He liked what he saw. He came back and built railroads along the east coast so that...
by Sandra Dr Sammons
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

Marjory Stoneman Douglas is called "the Grandmother of the Everglades." Read about her life from her childhood up north to her long and inspiring life in south Florida. She arrived in Miami in 1915 from her native Massachusetts, happy to be in the tropical warmth. She began to understood the...

Gift of the Unicorn

The Story of Lue Gim Gong, Florida's Citrus Wizard

by Virginia Aronson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002

Here is the story of Florida's citrus wizard, an immigrant boy from China who became a brilliant man who blessed the world with his horticultural gift. In China, the expression "Gift of the Unicorn" means a blessing from the gods to the most fortunate of parents: an exceptionally bright son. In 1860,...

Florida's Past, Vol 1

People and Events That Shaped the State

by Gene Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. This first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have...

Shipwrecks of Florida

A Comprehensive Listing

by Steven D Singer
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015

Over 2,100 shipwrecks from the 16th century to the present; the most comprehensive listing now available. Wrecks are arranged primarily by geographical section of the state. Within sections, wrecks are arranged chronologically. Extensive and heavily illustrated appendices offer a wealth of information...

Florida's Past, Vol 3

People and Events That Shaped the State

by Gene Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have...
by Robert N. Macomber
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013

The eleventh novel in the award-winning Honor Series of historical maritime fiction. January 1889. German and American naval forces are engaged in an escalating confrontation in Samoa in the South Pacific. Warships are at battle stations. Naval reinforcements from both nations are on the way....

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Voice of the River

by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage,...
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