"Finally, a spending issue Democrats and Republicans can agree upon: Atlas of Florida is a great buy "--Lawton Chiles, Governor of the State of Florida "The new Atlas of Florida skillfully chronicles Florida's emergence as a megastate. It is an invaluable resource for educators and business people who need the latest facts and figures about Florida's population, environment, economy, and political makeup. But, like the state itself, this book is not all business. . . . Turn to any page and you're bound to learn something new."--Jim Smith, Secretary of the State of...
"Finally, a spending issue Democrats and Republicans can agree upon: Atlas of Florida is a great buy "--Lawton Chiles, Governor of the State of...
"Without a doubt a significant contribution to an overall understanding of northeast Florida. . . . Reveals much about land use in the state of Florida and the larger southeast U.S. . . . Frees the reader to consider the human impact in environmental history] and our relationship to the land. This book makes you think."--Robert L. Thunen, University of North Florida
Early European descriptions of North America tell about a landscape and a variety of cultures in northeast Florida--a region that had been occupied by native people for more than 10,000 years--that were unlike anything...
"Without a doubt a significant contribution to an overall understanding of northeast Florida. . . . Reveals much about land use in the state of Flo...
"After Spain's colonial American mints poured forth a flood of silver coins, some of that treasure ended up in wrecks off the Florida coast. Alan Craig's captivating study explains how those coins were made and what historians and numismatists can learn from them."--Kendall W. Brown, Brigham Young University
"The State of Florida is indeed fortunate that its colonial coin inventory, Florida's shipwreck patrimony, could be studied by Alan Craig. This work enriches us all."--Eugene Lyon, author of The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Spanish Conquest of...
"After Spain's colonial American mints poured forth a flood of silver coins, some of that treasure ended up in wrecks off the Florida coast. Alan C...
Among documents of Florida's Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist. One of these, the 1595 narrative by Fray Andres de San Miguel, expertly translated by John Hann, describes the two-year odyssey of a teenager from Spain across the Atlantic to Mexico, Havana, and Florida and finally back to Spain. The future friar's account of his experiences as a young sailor brings to life the fleets of the Golden Age of Spain and reveals how those adventures would change his life forever. After Andres's ship passed Cape Canaveral, it was battered by a four-day storm and separated from the...
Among documents of Florida's Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist. One of these, the 1595 narrative by Fray Andres de San Miguel, ex...
![An Atlas of Maritime Florida: Roger C. Smith...[Et Al] Roger C. Smith James J. Miller Sean M. Kelley 9780813015125 Florida Dept. of State](/9780813015125_atlas_of_maritime_florida.jpg "An Atlas of Maritime Florida: Roger C. Smith...[Et Al]")
