Re-Discover Florida.
1969 · Miami, FL
by Dunn, Hampton.
Miami, FL: Hurricane House, (1969). Octavo, paperbound (stiff, full-color photograph illustrated white wrappers), 84 pp. Very Good+, with former-owner signature. From Foreword: A Cracker Looks at Florida: I was born in Florida and have lived here all my life. (No, I did not make either the first or second voyages with Ponce de Leon... my explorations began a little later on). I love Florida, every cubic inch of it... every linear foot of its 8,462 miles of coast line.. every square yard of its rolling hills, piney wood flatlands, soupy Everglades, its citrus-producing ridge .. every quart of water in Florida’s lakes, rivers bayous and bays. This state which has so much to offer today also has a tremendously interesting and colorful background. Why, Florida is the oldest state in the Union and our ancestors were well colonized when the Mayflower came along upcountry and those folks got all the publicity. The stirring history of the Sunshine State is often overlooked, possibly because we have such a vibrant present and booming future we fail to take inventory of the significant events and of the brave and bold and even sometimes reckless personalities who carved a great state from a jungle-like terrain... (Inventory #: 4456bd)