In this creative and engaging project, the author of the widely popular Florida: A Short History, offers a brief, stirring invitation to the state s history in both audio and print formats. Gannon, a longtime researcher and teacher, packs thousands of years of history and change into a concise, authoritative 40-minute cruise through Florida s centuries. Spanning millennia from Florida s earliest inhabitants to the 2004-5 hurricane seasons, Gannon highlights ten watershed periods in the state s history. Appropriately, in a state widely known as a cultural melting pot, the first four of...