Victoria Shearer

It Happened in the Florida Keys (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Events and People that Shaped History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the wreck of the USS Alligator to the mystery of the marooned dolphins, It Happened in the Florida Keys looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of this island chain.

• Discover why the Key Largo dive community decided to have the largest ship in the world ever to be intentionally sunk deposited six miles offshore the Florida Keys.
• Read about the incredible discovery of a sunken seventeenth-century Spanish galleon's treasure worth an estimated $450 million.
• Learn how some poultry running wild wreaked havoc on the city of Key West, and sparked the emotionally charged "chicken wars".
• Relive three fascinating summers when Keys residents rubbed elbows with Hollywood stars as their favorite haunts were transformed into fictional sets for a popular television series.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781493040254
• Artikelnr.: 60062761

Autorenporträt

Victoria Shearer is a longtime travel and food journalist who frequently contributes to national magazines and newspapers. She is also the author of The Florida Keys Cookbook, ten editions of Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys & Key West, Walking Places in New England, It Happened in the Florida Keys, and others. Vicki divides her time between Islamorada, in the Keys, and Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (1) Hard Aground on the Reef: The Demise of the U.S.S. Alligator
1822 (2) Double Cross: Salvaging the Slaver Guerrero
1827 (3) Massacre on Indian Key
1840 (4) Muddy Waters: Truth and Consequences
1865 (5) Key West Cigars: Up in Smoke
1886 (6) First Train to Paradise
1912 (7) Catching the Big One: Zane Grey and the Long Key Fishing Camp
1919 (8) Against all Protocol: Battle in the Florida Straits
1943 (9) Mother Nature's Fury: The Labor Day Hurricane
1935 (10) Sabotage in the Mangroves: Litnumvitae key and the Bay of Pigs
1961 (11) Island at War: Key West and the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 (12) Flotilla to Freedom: The Flooding of Key West
1980 (13) If at First You Don't Secede . . .
1982 (14) Fat Albert's Great Escape
1984 (15) Drowning the African Queen
1992 (16) True Lies on the Seven Mile Bridge
1993 (17) Chained to the Mother Lode
2000 (18) The Serendipitous Sinking of the Spiegel Grove
2002 (19) Marooned in Marathon
2005