Abandoned South Florida: Echoes of the Past
Abandoned South Florida: Echoes of the Past

Author: David Bulit

Publisher: America Through Time

Published: 2021-05-24

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781634993203

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South Florida is known for its beaches, nightclubs, and party atmosphere, but underneath is a history of corruption, drugs, and violence. For those structures that have withstood the harsh perils of time, they have been destroyed by man's ever-growing quest for money. In Abandoned South Florida, David Bulit will take you through a series of locations that locals tend to have forgotten about or would rather not discuss. You'll venture through a church part of the cult the Nation of Yahweh; a prison which was the site of one of the largest prison escapes in Florida's history; a once popular hotel turned squatter's paradise; a shopping mall which became a haven for the homeless and bats alike; the last tuberculosis hospital in the state of Florida; and many more places that have been consumed by the jaws of development.

A Land Remembered
A Land Remembered

Author: Patrick D Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1561645826

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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Lost Miami
Lost Miami

Author: David Bulit

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1625854463

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Miami architecture is world renowned, but many historic treasures have been forgotten. The Richmond Naval Air Station was a blimp base destroyed by hurricane in 1945. A Cold War missile base lies covered in graffiti. Homestead's old Aerojet complex was originally used in the testing and construction of experimental rockets but was slowly demolished as part of a project to revitalize the Everglades. The Miami Marine Stadium was declared unsafe after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and stands abandoned today. Author and "Abandoned Florida" blogger David Bulit revives the history and secrets of the Magic City's vanishing gems.

Dreaming in Cuban
Dreaming in Cuban

Author: Cristina García

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2011-06-08

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307798003

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“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post

Abandoned New England
Abandoned New England

Author: Priscilla Paton

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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An examination of artists and poets and the New England landscape that inspired their work.

An Enormous Crime
An Enormous Crime

Author: Bill Hendon

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 1272

ISBN-13: 1429922907

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart, this book brilliantly reveals the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973, what these brave men have endured, and how administration after administration of their own government has turned its back on them. This authoritative exposé is based on open-source documents and reports, and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, as well as author interviews and personal experience. An Enormous Crime is a singular work, telling a story unlike any other in our history: ugly, harrowing, and true.

Florida
Florida

Author: Charlie Carlson

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781402766848

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A guide to visiting the odd and less known tourist attractions in the state of Florida.

Abandoned Delmarva
Abandoned Delmarva

Author: Todd M. Dalgliesh

Publisher: America Through Time

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781634993357

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Abandoned Delmarva: The Forgotten Places of the Delmarva Peninsula travels to all corners of the Delmarva, touring the forgotten places of the past that hide behind our modern world--from large towns to small ones, places modern and bustling, to places that seem frozen in time. Abandoned structures are all around us. It is possible you've driven past the locations in this book without a second glance. Perhaps this book will inspire you to think twice next time you pass an overgrown driveway or boarded-up building. In these pages, you will see the schools that molded the town's minds and hospitals that once cared for the masses, along with businesses, entertainment, industry, and all the likes in between. All were lost in history, but are now found on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Forgotten Grasslands of the South
Forgotten Grasslands of the South

Author: Reed F. Noss

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2012-12-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 159726489X

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Forgotten Grasslands of the South is the study of one of the biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. In a seamless blend of science and personal observation, renowned ecologist Reed Noss explains the natural history of southern grasslands, their origin and history, and the physical determinants of grassland distribution, including ecology, soils, landform, and hydrology. In addition to offering fascinating new information about these little-studied ecosystems, Noss demonstrates how natural history is central to the practice of conservation. Although theory and experimentation have recently dominated the field of ecology, ecologists are coming to realize how these distinct approaches are not divergent but complementary, and that pursuing them together can bring greater knowledge and understanding of how the natural world works and how we can best conserve it. This long-awaited work sets a new standard for scientific literature and is essential reading for those who study and work to conserve the grasslands of the South as well as for everyone who is fascinated by the natural world.

A Journey into Florida Railroad History
A Journey into Florida Railroad History

Author: Gregg M. Turner

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2012-03-25

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0813042925

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It is safe to say that without railroads, Florida wouldn't be what it is today. Railroads connected the state's important cities and towns, conquered the peninsula's vast and seemingly impenetrable interior, ushered in untold numbers of settlers and tourists, and conveyed to market--faster than any previous means of transportation--the myriad products of Florida's mines, forests, factories, farms, and groves. Gregg Turner traces the long, slow development of Florida railroads, from the first tentative lines in the 1830s, through the boom of the 1880s, to the maturity of the railroad system in the 1920s. At the end of that decade nearly 6,000 miles of labyrinthine track covered the state. Turner also examines the decline of the industry, as the automobile rose to prominence in American culture and lines were abandoned or sold for hiking trails and green spaces. Meticulously researched and richly illustrated--including many never-before-published images--A Journey into Florida Railroad History is a comprehensive, authoritative history of the subject. Written by one of the nation's foremost authorities on Florida railroads, it explores all the key players and companies, and every significant period of development. This engaging and lively story will be savored and enjoyed by generations to come.