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It Happened in the Florida Keys

Stories of Events and People that Shaped History
  • ISBN-13: 9781493040247
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: GLOBE PEQUOT
  • By Victoria Shearer
  • Price: AUD $34.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/03/2021
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Historiography [HBAH]
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Salvage of a sunken slave ship, devastating hurricanes and the odd doingsof locals such as Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway's cats.
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
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