An Early Florida Adventure Story
DOWNLOAD
Download An Early Florida Adventure Story PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get An Early Florida Adventure Story book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
An Early Florida Adventure Story
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrés de San Miguel (fray)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
An Early Florida Adventure Story written by Andrés de San Miguel (fray) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
"Among documents of Florida's Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist. One of these, the 1595 narrative by Fray Andres de San Miguel, translated by John Hann, describes the two-year odyssey of a teenager from Spain across the Atlantic to Mexico, Havana, and Florida and finally back to Spain. The future friar's account of his experiences as a young sailor brings to life the fleets of the Golden Age of Spain and reveals how those adventures would change his life forever. It also provides vivid information about the Indians of the Georgia and Florida coast." "After Andres's ship passed Cape Canaveral, it was battered by a four-day storm and separated from the fleet. The officers comandeered the only launch and escaped; the crew kept the ship afloat and improvised a box-like vessel in which 30 survivors reached shore near the mouth of the Altamaha River - more dead than alive for lack of food and water. The author offers detailed descriptions of the Guale Indians and of Mission San Pedro Mocama on Cumberland Island. He also provides vignettes of life in St. Augustine and, on his way to Havana, of encounters with South Florida Indians who came out to trade and with a gentlemanly English pirate. The adventure closes with Fray Andres's return to Cadiz, where he witnessed the 1596 British siege and burning of that port." "Only seventeen years old at the time of the voyage, Fray Andres presents a cold-eyed view of the sailing experience in the 16th century, trenchant observations on the behavior of the ship's officers and the circumstances of the survival of the crew, and insight into the ambitions, concerns, and religiosity of the Spaniards. The book includes Hann's translation of a brief introductory essay written by Fray Andres's Mexican publisher, telling of the young man's entry into the Carmelites and the accomplishments of his later life as a church architect, builder, and hydrographic expert involved in the drainage of the valley of Mexico City."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Florida Adventure Stories
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jim Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: America Star Books
Release Date : 2010-01
Florida Adventure Stories written by Jim Wiggins and has been published by America Star Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01 with Fiction categories.
Florida Adventure Stories contains 16 stories filled with exciting adventures that are based on historical facts. Though fictionalized for more enjoyable reading, each story is an integral part of Florida's rich history. The stories include a shipwreck, murder, narrow escapes, tragedy, humor, and a wide variety of events that helped shape Florida's unique history. At the end of each story is a page that adds details of the actual historical facts so that readers may distinguish between fact and fiction. This book is designed for young readers but adults will also find the pages to be captivating. Most importantly, readers will learn more about Florida's exciting history, which extends farther back than any other state in America.
Wakulla A Story Of Adventure In Florida
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kirk Munroe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Wakulla A Story Of Adventure In Florida written by Kirk Munroe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida by Kirk Munroe is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
Adventure Tales From Florida S Past
DOWNLOAD
Author : Peggy Sias Lantz
language : en
Publisher: Woodsmere Press
Release Date : 2021-01-21
Adventure Tales From Florida S Past written by Peggy Sias Lantz and has been published by Woodsmere Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
ADVENTURE TALES FROM FLORIDA'S PAST, Peggy Sias Lantz Many of the events in Florida history included a young person, who may have showed courage or ingenuity or creativity. Each of these ten stories puts a young person front and center in some historic occurrence in Florida. All of them are true or contain fictionalized historic truth. All have been carefully researched. Information about exactly what is true and what the author has added to make it read like fiction is detailed at the end of each story.
Backcountry Lawman
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bob H. Lee
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2013-03-12
Backcountry Lawman written by Bob H. Lee and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With thirty years of backcountry patrol experience in Florida, Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend, including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens.
Finding Florida
DOWNLOAD
Author : T. D. Allman
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Finding Florida written by T. D. Allman and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with History categories.
Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.
The Unsettlement Of America
DOWNLOAD
Author : Anna Brickhouse
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
The Unsettlement Of America written by Anna Brickhouse and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
The Unsettlement of America explores the career and legacy of Don Luis de Velasco, an early modern indigenous translator of the sixteenth-century Atlantic world who traveled far and wide and experienced nearly a decade of Western civilization before acting decisively against European settlement. The book attends specifically to the interpretive and knowledge-producing roles played by Don Luis as a translator acting not only in Native-European contact zones but in a complex arena of inter-indigenous transmission of information about the hemisphere. The book argues for the conceptual and literary significance of unsettlement, a term enlisted here both in its literal sense as the thwarting or destroying of settlement and as a heuristic for understanding a wide range of texts related to settler colonialism, including those that recount the story of Don Luis as it is told and retold in a wide array of diplomatic, religious, historical, epistolary, and literary writings from the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Tracing accounts of this elusive and complex unfounding father from the colonial era as they unfolds across the centuries, The Unsettlement of America addresses the problems of translation at the heart of his story and speculates on the implications of the broader, transhistorical afterlife of Don Luis for the present and future of hemispheric American studies.
I Am Grey Eyes A Story Of Old Florida
DOWNLOAD
Author : Willam P. Ryan
language : en
Publisher: William Ryan
Release Date : 2008
I Am Grey Eyes A Story Of Old Florida written by Willam P. Ryan and has been published by William Ryan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Florida categories.
Seen through the eyes of Grey Eyes, a Seminole Indian, historic events are intertwined into a readable story that is partly historic fiction, but mostly fact. A cattle drive from Colerain, Georgia to New Smyrna, Florida, the Minorcan settlers, a terrible Florida war, and a black slave uprising all mix into a little known part of Florida's early history. The little known story of the Black Seminoles is told here along with the events that shaped Florida along Old Kings Road.
Polygamy
DOWNLOAD
Author : M. S. Pearsall
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-20
Polygamy written by M. S. Pearsall and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with History categories.
A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America "A richly sourced, elegantly written, and strikingly original interdisciplinary study of the diverse practices of polygamy in American from ca.1500 to 1900.”—John Witte Jr., Journal of Law and Religion Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy’s surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities, and segments of the American nation. Polygamy—as well as the fight against it—illuminates many touchstones of American history: the Pueblo Revolt and other uprisings against the Spanish; Catholic missions in New France; New England settlements and King Philip’s War; the entrenchment of African slavery in the Chesapeake; the Atlantic Enlightenment; the American Revolution; missions and settlement in the West; and the rise of Mormonism. Pearsall expertly opens up broader questions about monogamy’s emergence as the only marital option, tracing the impact of colonial events on property, theology, feminism, imperialism, and the regulation of sexuality. She shows that heterosexual monogamy was never the only model of marriage in North America.
Informed Power
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alejandra Dubcovsky
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-04
Informed Power written by Alejandra Dubcovsky and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with History categories.
Informed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial world came into possession of vital knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. Challenging the notion of early colonial America as an uninformed backwater, Alejandra Dubcovsky uncovers the ingenious ways its inhabitants acquired timely news through largely oral networks. Information circulated through the region via spies, scouts, traders, missionaries, and other ad hoc couriers—and by encounters of sheer chance with hunting parties, shipwrecked sailors, captured soldiers, or fugitive slaves. For many, content was often inseparable from the paths taken and the alliances involved in acquiring it. The different and innovative ways that Indians, Africans, and Europeans struggled to make sense of their world created communication networks that linked together peoples who otherwise shared no consensus of the physical and political boundaries shaping their lives. Exchanging information was not simply about having the most up-to-date news or the quickest messenger. It was a way of establishing and maintaining relationships, of articulating values and enforcing priorities—a process inextricably tied to the region’s social and geopolitical realities. At the heart of Dubcovsky’s study are important lessons about the nexus of information and power in the early American South.