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Covers	Titles	Price
Click for Larger View	Indian Mounds You Can Visit: 165 Aboriginal Sites on Florida's West Coast I. Mac Perry ISBN-10: 0820010391 ISBN-13:9780820010397 Size 5-1/2 inches x 8-1/2 inches, 320 pages, b&w photos, illustrations, index, 2nd ed. © 1998 When Columbus arrived in the New World, 100,000 people (or more) already lived in Florida and had been here for thousands of years. These primitive people built mounds for ceremonial and practical purposes. Though most mounds have succumbed to the bulldozer, many still exist and may be visited. Author I. Mac Perry tells where to find them, describes what was found when they were excavated, and explains what recovered artifacts tell us about the lives of the ancient people who left them behind. Organized by county, with sidebars, charts, photographs and drawings. `. . . an informative and entertaining book about archaeological sites on Florida 's west coast . . . clearly written and well organized. --Florida Anthropological Society Click here to read more about this book... Category: History, Guides TFIH	$14.95 each Quantity:
Click for Larger View	Pirates and Buried Treasure Jack Beater ISBN-10: 0820010197 ISBN-13:9780820010199 Size 5-1/2 inches x 8-1/2 inches, 88 pages, illustrated. While on a cruise to Havana in 1911, Jack Beater heard part of the Gasparilla story. That piqued an interest that persisted for fifty years, as he pored over old books and records and talked endlessly to early settlers to hear more hand-me-down yarns. This book recounts some of his best tall tales. Category: Lore, History	$4.95 each Quantity:
Click for Larger View	This Nearly Was Mine Dr. Barbara Castleberry Carlton with Barbara Oehlbeck ISBN-10: 0820000000 ISBN-13:9780820000008 Size 8" x 10", 392 pages, 2009, jacketed hardcover This is the story beginning in the 1800s in the heartland of Central Florida. This is history of the land and its native inhabitants. Conjointly this is a biographical memoir of the life of Dr. Barbara Castleberry Carlton who borne the idea of the project and tenaciously dug out every historical fact regarding the lives of those who settled this land with love, devotion, and determination, and whose descendants have continued to do so for some two hundred years. Category: History	$34.95 each Quantity:
Click for Larger View	30 Eco-Trips in Florida Holly Ambrose ISBN-10: 0813028507 ISBN-13:9780813028507 6 in. x 9 in., 368 pages, paperback Divided into four specific geographic regions covering the entire state from the Panhandle to the Lower Keys, the guide provides a complete overview of each with general background information, descriptions of wildlife and recreational opportunities, places to stay from campgrounds to more formal lodging, and detailed listings for side trips to adjacent natural spots and attractions, provides a special section on bird and wildlife viewing, and advises how to reduce one's impact on the environment. Category: Guides, History, Lore, Wildlife	$19.95 each Quantity:
Click for Larger View	Al Burt's Florida Al Burt ISBN-10: 0813015421 ISBN-13:9780813015422 Size 6" x 9", 182 pages, cloth w/color dustjacket, b&w photos, index This portrait of Florida combines vignettes of notable Floridians with those of the state's many special places. It dwells on the smaller places that are seen as the anchors of old Florida, and on the people who do their best to preserve them. In the process he captures what few have expressed – sense of Florida as home. Category: History	$24.95 each Quantity:
Click for Larger View	An American Beach for African Americans Marsha Dean Phelts ISBN-10: 0813015049 ISBN-13:9780813015040 Size 6" x 9.25", 188 pages, b&w photos throughout As a personal narrative history of Florida's American Beach, this text draws together interviews, newspaper articles, memoirs, maps and official documents to reconstruct the character and traditions of Amelia Island's 220-acre African American community. Category: History	$24.95 each Quantity: