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Al Burt's Florida: Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers (Signed) Hardcover - 1997
by Burt Jr., Al
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Details
- Title Al Burt's Florida: Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers (Signed)
- Author Burt Jr., Al
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very good +
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- Date 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5019
- ISBN 9780813015422 / 0813015421
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.33 x 1.09 in (23.67 x 16.08 x 2.77 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Florida
- Library of Congress subjects Florida - Description and travel, Florida - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-9454
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.9
From the rear cover
As a roving reporter for The Miami Herald from 1973 to 1995, Al Burt traveled all of Florida studying it with the insight of a native and the detached eye of the foreign correspondent he had been. During those years, he observed connections with the state's past and speculated about its future and, while he was at it, took note of the human frailties and heroisms he witnessed every day. Al Burt's Florida is like a family portrait, a loving but not uncritical view of a complex and fascinating state. Burt's portrait combines vignettes of notable Floridians - some famous, like Ed Ball, but most better known locally - with those of the state's many special places: Okeechobee in the teens and twenties, Miami Beach in the fifties (when dinner in Havana was only a $26 plane ride away), Wakulla Springs when it served as Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan movie set, modern-day Tallahassee with its formality and grace.
