These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Seminole Indians of Florida: I have endeavored to present a faithful portraiture of their appearance and personal characteristics, and have enlarged upon their manners and ..
Rare ghost orchids grow in the humid depths of the Big Cypress, a region of vast prairies, haunting cypress strands, and deep sloughs filled with alligator flag. From its traditional start at Lake Okeechobee, the world''s only Everglades sweep so..
Meet the visionaries and outlaws, physicians and poets who shaped this region of southeast Florida from the 1690s through the 1990s. Author William McGoun's stories are sometimes hair-raising, sometimes amusing, and always engaging.Well researched and dott..
"I should never," he says, "be around naked women." And late one night, at a gaudy Fort Lauderdale strip joint, Dilbeck loses control. He leaps onto the stage with the performers and proceeds to demonstrate his affections in ..
This volume offers single-day tours to some of the most interesting and remote small towns along some of the most beautiful roads in the northern third of the state. Starting in Melbourne on Florida's Atlantic Coast, skirting Lake Okeechobee, delving into ..
The book examines:masquerade theatre in Eastern Nigeriathe trance and possession ritual theatre of the Hausa of Northern Nigeriathe musical and oral tradition of the Mandinka of Senegalcomedy and satire of the Bamana in Mali.Osita Okagbue describes each pe..
