Chronicles the life of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, concentrating on her life in Cross Creek, Florida and how the simple way of life of her country neighbors influenced her writing.
-- First field guide in 25 years to treat Florida's amazing variety of ferns-- Color plates feature more than 200 images, some of which include rare species never before illustrated in color-- Include
In the early 20th century, Bertha Palmer was one of the best-known and wealthiest women in America. She was an art collector, women’s rights advocate, businesswoman, owner of Chicago’s Palmer House Ho
Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. Th
The founder of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary tells the story of the sanctuary's relocation from southwest Florida to the hills of West Arkansas and introduces the horses and two donkeys that run free o
The year is 1863. The Civil War is leaving its bloody trail across the nation as Peter Wake, born and bred in the North, joins the U.S. Navy and arrives in Florida for duty with the East Gulf Blockadi
From the time the first humans reached the Florida peninsula more than 12,000 years ago through today's complex and diverse state, this timeline narrative sets Florida's fascinating history against th
During the Civil War, Calvin L. Robinson was a successful businessman in Jacksonville, Florida, transplanted from his native state of Vermont. Loyal to the Union and finding slave-holding repugnant, h
Cracker Westerns are rip-roarin’, action-packed, can’t-put-’em-down tales set in the frontier days of Florida. They are full of adventure, real heroes, and vivid, authentic details that bring Fl
Winner of the W.Y Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction for 2008. It's 1879 and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, U.S.N., is on special assignment as the official American neutral naval observer
Nineteenth-century American naval seaman Peter Wake goes on what was supposed to be a simple mission to Indochina, but turns into a month long odyssey where Wake must deal with pirates, gangsters, and
13th in the Honor Series of Naval Historical Fiction following the career of Capt. Peter WakePolitics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a qu
In 1912 in the Florida Keys, twelve-year-old Eddie Malone's father is falsely accused of stealing the Florida East Coast Railway payroll and Eddie sets out with his Labrador retriever, Rex, on the tra
At the beginning of this fifth novel in Robert N. Macomber's award-winning Honor Series, it's December 1873 and Lieutenant Peter Wake is the executive officer of the USS Omaha on dreary patrol in the
Honorable Mention, the third volume in the award-winning "Honor" series, covers the tumultuous end of the Civil War in Florida and the Caribbean, from the re-election of Lincoln in 1864 to the relocat
In this second of Robert Macomber's historical novels of the naval Civil War in Florida, the year is 1864 and Peter Wake, U.S.N., assisted by his indomitable Irish bosun, Sean Rork, is at the helm of
