Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida
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"The history of Florida is the story of North America in miniature. By telling it with such eloquence and learning in 'Some Kind of Paradise, ' Mr. Derr has revealed the dark side of the historian Frederick Jackson Turner's famous hypothesis: our national character was indeed shaped by the frontier. . . . Derr] writes with a journalist's eye for telling details and an antiquarian's fondness for digression and quirky facts. . . . The state's tortuous...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813016290
ISBN13:9780813016290
Release Date:November 1998
Publisher:University Press of Florida
Length:440 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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Floridian Must Have
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
If you are a Floridian, this is one for you. Professor reserved it in our campus library for research, I was so taken with it I immediately came home looking for a copy. Glad to have found one.
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