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Moon Florida Gulf Coast (Moon Handbooks)  Food critic and Tampa resident Laura Reiley covers the best of the Gulf Coast, from exploring the everglades to soaking up the sun on the beaches of west-central Florida. Laura offers several unique travel strategies including a bird-watching tour and a guide to the Gulf Coast?s best beaches. Complete with details on snorkeling with manatees in the Homosassa River, wandering through the historical sites of Apalachicola and Tallahassee, and fishing along miles of coast and parkland, Moon Florida Gulf Coast gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. Author: Laura Reiley Paperback: 400 pages Company: Avalon Travel Publishing (2008-10-01) ISBN: 1598800825 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $11.48 Used Price: $12.07 Kids Love Florida: A Family Travel Guide to Exploring "Kid-Tested" Places in Florida...Year Round! (Kids Love Florida: A Family Travel Guide to Exploring Kid Tested)  KIDS LOVE FLORIDA lists and reviews hundreds of kid-tested attractions and events throughout the state. Besides all of the details (where, when), the book is best known for its easy-to-read reviews of what is most engaging about each site. And, you'll discover most of the book explores places besides theme parks. You won't find this information together in any other resource or on the internet. Great idea for unique, easy day trips or vacations.Author: George Zavatsky, Michele Zavatsky Paperback: 271 pages Company: Kids Love Publications (2007-03-17) ISBN: 0977443418 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $8.95 Used Price: $7.53 Visiting Small-Town Florida: A Guide to 39 of Florida's Most Interesting Small Towns  Bruce Hunt has combined and updated the two volumes of his popular Visiting Small-Town Florida series to bring you this exciting, new venture into real, old-timey Florida. Take a road trip around the Sunshine State with Bruce Hunt as he visits 70 of Florida?s most charming, historic, and often eclectic small towns?places with names like Sopchoppy, Ozello, and Two Egg. Tour historic districts, museums, galleries, antiques shops, and great local eateries. Marvel at the intricate architecture of past centuries. Learn about each town?s history and meet some of the unusual and endearing characters who call these small towns home. This travelogue and guide book lets you experience the flavor of Florida?s backroads burgs and provides directions, addresses, phone numbers, and websites. Here at your fingertips is all the information you?ll need to make one (or all) of these special places a weekend or vacation destination. Wild About Florida: South Florida  Geography has dealt Florida a lavish hand when it comes to natural gifts. The Sunshine State is filled with unusual flora and fauna. South Florida is home to the endangered Florida panthers and the only North America crocodiles. The Everglades swarm with wildlife from birds such as wood storks, ibises, flamingos, roseate spoonbills and dozens of others to mammals such as black bears, bobcats, fox squirrels and raccoons. When it comes to reptiles, you will find more alligators than you ever dreamed of as well as gopher tortoises, caimans, green anoles, five lined skinks and hundreds of other snakes, turtles and lizards. Take a boat ride into the surrounding waters of the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico, you will find dolphins dancing in your wake. Drop on down to Big Pine Key, which is the only place you can encounter the tiny Key deer in the wild. You will probably spot a few sun-loving iguanas as you island hop through the Keys. South Florida's plant life is also abundant and rich. From the native mangroves, which are at the root of the food chain to the colorful exotic Brazilian pepper, which threatens native plant life but seems impossible to eradicate to the delicate wild orchids, which thrive on air alone, your senses will be overwhelmed by the color and variety. Then there are also all the refuges, preserves, parks and zoos that make South Florida a nature lover's paradise. Wild About Florida- South Florida is a guide no outdoorsman- or woman- should be without. It lists those hard to find places and provides the inside scoop on those magnificent spots you might never find on your own. It portrays Florida's wonders with original full color photographs.Author: Kathleen Walls Paperback: 104 pages Company: Global Authors Publishers (2008-05-25) ISBN: 0979808758 List Price: $16.99 Amazon Price: $10.66 Used Price: $10.19 The Rough Guide to Miami & South Florida 2 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)  The Rough to Miami & Southern Florida is the definitive guide to the ever-emerging city of Author: Mark Ellwood Paperback: 1 pages Company: Rough Guides (2008-09-29) ISBN: 1858288061 List Price: $18.99 Amazon Price: $10.90 Used Price: $10.91 The Florida Keys: A History & Guide Tenth Edition (Florida Keys)  The Florida Keys: A History & Guide is an engaging handbook to the unique coral and limestone islands that curve southwest off the tip of Florida. Acclaimed novelist and Florida resident Joy Williams traces U.S. Highway 1 from Key Largo to Key West, combining the best of local legend?colorful stories you won?t find in other guidebooks?with insightful commentary and the most up-to-date advice on where to stay, eat, and wander. Along the way, you will:? explore the exquisite underwater world of North America?s only living reef ? discover the beautiful bridges that span the Keys, the forts, and the distinctive ?conch? architecture of Key West ? experience the eerie serenity of Florida Bay?s ?backcountry? and the unique ecology of the Keys ? visit the Key West cemetery and learn about the lives of some of the Keys? eccentrics?writers, madmen, and entrepreneurs with various delusions ? find the best (and avoid the worst) cafés, inns, and other establishments that the Keys have to offer Here is the most thorough and candid guide to the Keys, one of the most surprising locales in America. With insight and style, Joy Williams shares with us all of the region?s idiosyncrasies and delights. Author: Joy Williams Paperback: 304 pages Company: Random House Trade Paperbacks (2003-09-23) (2003-09-23) ISBN: 0812968425 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $8.92 Used Price: $2.49 Backroads of Florida: Your Guide to Great Day Trips & Weekend Getaways  Away from the bustle of Miami Beach and the tourist extravaganza of Disney World, another Florida beckons to those looking for backroads adventure, quieter fare, or more discriminating fun. This is the Florida where backroads and secret splendors unfold in a landscape rich in the flavors and colors of ancient indigenous cultures, early European settlements, Civil War battles, and myriad Caribbean influences. Authors Paul Franklin and Nancy Mikula take you to every corner of the Sunshine State, from the Panhandle to the Florida Keys, with journeys along miles of spectacular coastline and forays into the wonders of lush interior forests, pristine lakes, and otherworldly swamplands.
Florida is home to nearly a dozen national parks, forests, and seashores, and Backroads of Florida explores these attractions and many more, illustrated with breathtaking color photographs throughout. The book presents the background history and culture for Florida?s varied natural and human communities along with descriptions of the best destinations and sites to visit during your travels. Author: Paul M. Franklin, Nancy Joyce Mikula Paperback: 160 pages Company: Voyageur Press (2009-03-15) ISBN: 0760332266 List Price: $21.99 Amazon Price: $14.95 Florida (Eyewitness Travel Guide)  Florida can be divided into seven distinct regions, each corresponding to specific geographic and cultural criteria. Marshy Everglades, and tropical Keys occupy the south, while the vacation capital of Miami rises along the east coast. From the extravagant Gilded Age of manses and fantastic beaches of the Gold and Treasure Coasts to the amusement parks of Orlando, and St. Augustine's Spanish-Colonial era architecture in the Northeast, Florida is a region of stark contrasts. For more valuable travel information about art, shopping, entertainment, nightlife, hotels and sports look to Eyewitness Travel to Florida.Author: DK Publishing Turtleback: 416 pages Company: DK Travel (2006-03-20) ISBN: 0756615321 List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: $4.57 Used Price: $4.58 Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West (Hidden Travel)  Where Vacations Meet Adventures! First, Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades reviews the destination?s famed attractions. Then (more importantly!) it invites the reader to go further to ?Hidden? spots other guides overlook, including small inns and local restaurants. The guide also focuses on outdoor adventures with detailed information on beaches, parks, and outdoor activities. Special traveler-friendly features include hidden spots, author?s favorite picks, getaway itineraries, driving and walking tours, websites and e-mail addresses, and multiple scaled maps that zoom in on each area. Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades leads to cozy inns in Key West, sunset cruises in the Keys, and wildlife viewing in the Everglades. The author offers recommendations and opinionated reviews for over 87 restaurants and over 97 hotels. This updated edition includes 11 maps. Author: Candace Leslie Paperback: 232 pages Company: Ulysses Press (2005-12-13) ISBN: 1569755086 List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $13.94 Used Price: $6.38 Real Florida: A Travel Guide for the Passionate Yet Practical (The Budget Romance Traveler series)  From Mt. Dora to Tarpon Springs and Islamorada to the more pristine beaches of Stuart and Jensen, this guide offers both couples and families recommendations on where to find the best possible value and charm for the dollar in the Sunshine State. Written for folks who love quiet more than crowds and travelers who seek a richer experience while keeping a sensible eye on costs, this guide reveals an assortment of off-the-beaten-path destination points and attractions and information on where to dine and stay while enjoying them. Author: Walter Roark Paperback: 272 pages Company: Clearing Skies Press (2006-10-28) ISBN: 0970793766 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $10.40 Used Price: $9.34 |