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Flags of The 50 States and Their Incredible Histories Book, , Used; Good
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- 0660813016959
- ISBN
- 0813016959
- Publication Name
- Flags of The 50 States and Their Incredible Histories Book
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Tropic of Cracker
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Topic
- Travel Writing
- Item Weight
- 333g
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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The Tropic of Cracker will . . . end the debate once and for all, of whether the term 'Cracker' is derogatory or a source of great pride. Al Burt has a masterpiece here. --Sandra Bogan, Florida Audubon Society From the preface: The Tropic of Cracker survives in myth, memory, and love of natural Florida. It exists more in the mind than in geography, more in the memory than in the sight, more in attitude than in the encounter. . . . This book tells you about one man's vision of a state struggling to remain true to itself. It mixes new essays with a span of earlier ones written during nearly a quarter century of roving the state as a columnist for the Miami Herald. All of them, in sum, help illuminate and explain the Tropic of Cracker. --Al Burt The crack of the old-time cow hunter's whip gave the native Floridian a nickname, but Al Burt's Tropic of Cracker is a state of mind shared by those who love what remains of the Florida that needed no blueprint or balance sheet for its creation, that was here before there was a can opener or a commercial or a real-estate agent. In his years of roving the state as a Miami Herald columnist, Al Burt mapped Florida's Tropic of Cracker, not with lines of latitude and longitude but with stories. The Crackers Burt tells of are men and women from Apalachicola to the Everglades, from Tallahassee to the Keys. They lived in the late 1800s, and they live today--along the Ocklawaha and in the floodplains of Lake Okeechobee. They were cow hunters, Conchs, and alligator men. They grew oranges, sugarcane, and muscadine grapes. They made moonshine. They drove mules, ate fried mullet, and told yarns in a Cracker creole about Florida's panthers, snakes, alligators, and hurricanes. There are luminaries among them--Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Virgil Hawkins, John DeGrove, Harry Crews--but mostly they are just regular folk who mark the borders of the elusive and magical Tropic of Cracker. For anyone who loves the old Florida and still has hope for the new one, Tropic of Cracker is the state's truest road map and Al Burt its most eloquent cartographer. Al Burt worked as a journalist for 45 years, the last 22 at the Miami Herald. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, he has been a freelance contributor to many magazines, including The Nation and Historic Preservation, and is the author of several books, among them Florida: A Place in the Sun (1974), Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes (1984), and Al Burt's Florida (UPF, 1997), which was awarded the 1998 Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Book Award. In his honor, the 1,000 Friends of Florida established the annual Al Burt Award for Florida journalism.
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University Press of Florida
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Book Title
The Tropic of Cracker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Travel Writing
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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333g
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The Florida History and Culture Series
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United States
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