Author: John Henry Fleming
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571198795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A postmaster and a New York journalist embellish the experiences of the local immigrant mail carrier in order to create a tourist trade in a small post-Civil War Florida town
The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman
Author: John Henry Fleming
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571198795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A postmaster and a New York journalist embellish the experiences of the local immigrant mail carrier in order to create a tourist trade in a small post-Civil War Florida town
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571198795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A postmaster and a New York journalist embellish the experiences of the local immigrant mail carrier in order to create a tourist trade in a small post-Civil War Florida town
Florida Lore: The Barefoot Mailman, Cowboy Bone Mizell, the Tallahassee Witch and Other Tales
Author: Caren Schnur Neile
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467137820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Florida boasts mysterious tales that stretch back more than twelve thousand years. Dive into the lives of the proud Wakulla Pocahontas and the Ghost of Bellamy Bridge. Meet local lawbreakers like John Ashley, as well as transplants like Ma Barker and Al Capone. Stalk stumpy gators or Hogzilla as they prowl Florida's swamps and suburbs. Discover the quintessential Cracker cowboy and the Barefoot Mailman, plus the origin of names like Boca Raton and Orlando. Storyteller Caren Neile, PhD, shares myths, legends and folktales that reflect the diversity of characters and cultures that make Florida such a fascinating place.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467137820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Florida boasts mysterious tales that stretch back more than twelve thousand years. Dive into the lives of the proud Wakulla Pocahontas and the Ghost of Bellamy Bridge. Meet local lawbreakers like John Ashley, as well as transplants like Ma Barker and Al Capone. Stalk stumpy gators or Hogzilla as they prowl Florida's swamps and suburbs. Discover the quintessential Cracker cowboy and the Barefoot Mailman, plus the origin of names like Boca Raton and Orlando. Storyteller Caren Neile, PhD, shares myths, legends and folktales that reflect the diversity of characters and cultures that make Florida such a fascinating place.
The Forgotten Frontier
Author: Arva Moore Parks
Publisher: Past Perfect Florida Histor
ISBN: 0974158925
Category : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Here, in this remarkable, previously unknown collection of 230 of his photographs from 1800s to 1900, we see a Florida we will never see again. We see people carving out a life on a frontier that was in many ways more unique than any other. Here sailboats were the counter-parts of the covered wagon and the barefoot mailman of the pony express. Through Munroe's (Ralph Middleton) camera we see carefully detailed scenes that historians cannot fully describe: the Gold Coast before settlement; the first pictures of the Seminole Indians; Key West as the wrecking capital of the world; beauty primeval and untouched. ... jacket.
Publisher: Past Perfect Florida Histor
ISBN: 0974158925
Category : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Here, in this remarkable, previously unknown collection of 230 of his photographs from 1800s to 1900, we see a Florida we will never see again. We see people carving out a life on a frontier that was in many ways more unique than any other. Here sailboats were the counter-parts of the covered wagon and the barefoot mailman of the pony express. Through Munroe's (Ralph Middleton) camera we see carefully detailed scenes that historians cannot fully describe: the Gold Coast before settlement; the first pictures of the Seminole Indians; Key West as the wrecking capital of the world; beauty primeval and untouched. ... jacket.
If Nothin' Don't Happen
Author: David McCheyne Newell
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
An old-timey sampler of Florida cracker tales from the Withlacoochee River country.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
An old-timey sampler of Florida cracker tales from the Withlacoochee River country.
I Took the Moon for a Walk
Author: Carolyn Curtis
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 9781841486116
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A boy and the moon share a walk through his neighborhood.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 9781841486116
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A boy and the moon share a walk through his neighborhood.
Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida
Author: Charles William Pierce
Publisher: Coral Gables, Fla : University of Miami Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Coral Gables, Fla : University of Miami Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Walking With the Mailman
Author: Austin Brown
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781452893068
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Like the contents of a fragile parcel, the mysteries of postal life have at last been shattered, revealing the inner workings in all their brilliant glory! No longer will men and woman have to imagine what it's like walking from lawn to lawn, continually stepping over doggy landmines for hours on end! It's all right here! In a style that's decidedly humorous, not encyclopedic, quirky, but not in need of psychiatric care, letter carrier, Austin Brown, recounts fifteen years of postal life as a mailman. Writing with obvious delight and a firm grin, the idiosyncrasies of American culture are are illuminated in a fresh and entertaining way. Against this backdrop, the reader follows his life as a young letter carrier trekking along the sidewalks of Indiana, at first quite green- terribly green- but in time growing in maturity, learning the secret arts of blue collar survival amid a land where the average citizen roams wild, unhindered and real. Tempests are battled. Frothy-mouthed dogs are wrestled. Mobs of sticky children are overcome. And wild-eyed Postmasters are evaded. Step into a world not unlike a Norman Rockwell painting, but one where the neighborhood dog is firmly latched on the mailman's leg.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781452893068
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Like the contents of a fragile parcel, the mysteries of postal life have at last been shattered, revealing the inner workings in all their brilliant glory! No longer will men and woman have to imagine what it's like walking from lawn to lawn, continually stepping over doggy landmines for hours on end! It's all right here! In a style that's decidedly humorous, not encyclopedic, quirky, but not in need of psychiatric care, letter carrier, Austin Brown, recounts fifteen years of postal life as a mailman. Writing with obvious delight and a firm grin, the idiosyncrasies of American culture are are illuminated in a fresh and entertaining way. Against this backdrop, the reader follows his life as a young letter carrier trekking along the sidewalks of Indiana, at first quite green- terribly green- but in time growing in maturity, learning the secret arts of blue collar survival amid a land where the average citizen roams wild, unhindered and real. Tempests are battled. Frothy-mouthed dogs are wrestled. Mobs of sticky children are overcome. And wild-eyed Postmasters are evaded. Step into a world not unlike a Norman Rockwell painting, but one where the neighborhood dog is firmly latched on the mailman's leg.
The Flame Tree
Author: Theodore Pratt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book carries on the story of the southeast Florida coast begun in The Barefoot Mailman.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book carries on the story of the southeast Florida coast begun in The Barefoot Mailman.
The Barefoot Book of Children
Author: Tessa Strickland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782852964
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Barefoot Book of children takes its readers on a visual trek across the globe, where they discover that--despite our different clothes and homes and languages--we are more alike than different.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782852964
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Barefoot Book of children takes its readers on a visual trek across the globe, where they discover that--despite our different clothes and homes and languages--we are more alike than different.
Fearsome Creatures of Florida
Author: John Henry Fleming
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781929763405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
They're known as Storm Devils and Peat Fairies, Skunk Apes and Were-Panthers. They sinuate through ficus hedges and tunnel under beach towels. They lurk in the mangroves and springs. Some you can smell a mile away. Others you don't notice until they grab at your ankles. They're the wildly imaginative bestiary that populates John Henry Fleming's Fearsome Creatures of Florida. Fleming offers an eerie portrayal of the parallel lives of modern-day Floridians and the living landscape that surrounds them. Matched with haunting illustrations by David Hazouri, these tales may forever change your view of the Sunshine State. Voted one of Top Ten Cryptozoology Books of 2009,
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781929763405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
They're known as Storm Devils and Peat Fairies, Skunk Apes and Were-Panthers. They sinuate through ficus hedges and tunnel under beach towels. They lurk in the mangroves and springs. Some you can smell a mile away. Others you don't notice until they grab at your ankles. They're the wildly imaginative bestiary that populates John Henry Fleming's Fearsome Creatures of Florida. Fleming offers an eerie portrayal of the parallel lives of modern-day Floridians and the living landscape that surrounds them. Matched with haunting illustrations by David Hazouri, these tales may forever change your view of the Sunshine State. Voted one of Top Ten Cryptozoology Books of 2009,