1996, ISBN: e605d10b9c9283f894df7e51a6a166cb

[PU: Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., (). First Edition, stated. Stamped "Review Copy."], Jacket, Octavo, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 178 pp. Near-Fine in … More...

[PU: Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., (). First Edition, stated. Stamped "Review Copy."], Jacket, Octavo, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 178 pp. Near-Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Excerpted from ships' logs, captains' diaries, court-marital transcripts, and newspaper accounts, the stories in this volume will make you glad you live in a modern world. It is the second in a series on the Florida Keys. The first, also by John Viele, was the popular The Florida Keys: A History of the Pioneers. Read harrowing tales of the cruelty and torture inflicted on mariners at the hands of blood-thirsty pirates, of pistol and cannon battles between merchant ships and wayward privateers, and of the hardships endured by some of Florida's earliest settlers. Before the days of air conditioning and bug killers, Keys pioneers braved the hostile, wild landscape; unforgiging heat; violent hurricanes; swarms of relentless mosquitoes; attacks by Seminoles angered by a government intent on removing them from their native land; and unscrupulous military leaders. You will meet some hapless mariners and abititious military leaders: Commodore David Porter, arrogant and bossy, angered Key Westers by establishing a naval base on choice plots of land that proprietors had reserved for their own businesses. Privateer Captain James Wimble was dogged by bad luck throughout his short life: he lost four ships to treacherous reefs and Spanish pirates; he went into debt paying fines for trumped-up charges of violating customs regulations; and is arm was severed by a chain shot during a confrontation with pirates. Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship, was tortured and had an ear cut off by a Spanish coast guard crew, thus sparking the War of Jenkins' Ear. In January 1841, an expedition led by Lt. John McLaughlin, USN, became the first group of white men to cross the Everglades from coast to coast. Sprinkled with hand-drawn illustrations, photographs, and maps depicting the lay of the land during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book presents an exciting as well as scholarly, historically accurate account of life on the Keys and in the perilous Straits of Florida during the age of sail. An index and extensive bibliography are included. Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Florida Keys, Key West, Americana, U.S.-iana. TAS<

1996, ISBN: e605d10b9c9283f894df7e51a6a166cb

Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., (1996). First Edition, stated. Stamped Review Copy. Octavo, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 178 pp. Near-Fine in a Fine du… More...

Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., (1996). First Edition, stated. Stamped Review Copy. Octavo, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 178 pp. Near-Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Excerpted from ships logs, captains diaries, court-marital transcripts, and newspaper accounts, the stories in this volume will make you glad you live in a modern world. It is the second in a series on the Florida Keys. The first, also by John Viele, was the popular The Florida Keys: A History of the Pioneers. Read harrowing tales of the cruelty and torture inflicted on mariners at the hands of blood-thirsty pirates, of pistol and cannon battles between merchant ships and wayward privateers, and of the hardships endured by some of Floridas earliest settlers. Before the days of air conditioning and bug killers, Keys pioneers braved the hostile, wild landscape; unforgiging heat; violent hurricanes; swarms of relentless mosquitoes; attacks by Seminoles angered by a government intent on removing them from their native land; and unscrupulous military leaders. You will meet some hapless mariners and abititious military leaders: Commodore David Porter, arrogant and bossy, angered Key Westers by establishing a naval base on choice plots of land that proprietors had reserved for their own businesses. Privateer Captain James Wimble was dogged by bad luck throughout his short life: he lost four ships to treacherous reefs and Spanish pirates; he went into debt paying fines for trumped-up charges of violating customs regulations; and is arm was severed by a chain shot during a confrontation with pirates. Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship, was tortured and had an ear cut off by a Spanish coast guard crew, thus sparking the War of Jenkins Ear. In January 1841, an expedition led by Lt. John McLaughlin, USN, became the first group of white men to cross the Everglades from coast to coast. Sprinkled with hand-drawn illustrations, photographs, and maps depicting the lay of the land during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book presents an exciting as well as scholarly, historically accurate account of life on the Keys and in the perilous Straits of Florida during the age of sail. An index and extensive bibliography are included., Pineapple Press, Inc., (1996). First Edition, stated. Stamped Review Copy., 1996, 0<