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Boasting an incomparable location at the midpoint of Duval Street, The Tropical Inn is a quiet and private island compound. You might walk down Key West's most famous promenade a hundred times and not notice this romantic hideaway, tucked unassumingly away just steps from all the bustle and excitement |
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| Up for Grabs: A Trip Through Time and Space in the Sunshine State (Florida Sand Dollar Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Rothchild
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy Used: $11.40
You Save: $8.55 (43%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 169313
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0813018293
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.9
EAN: 9780813018294
ASIN: 0813018293
Publication Date: December 25, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: VERY GOOD CONDITION, TIGHT BINDING, CLEAN INSIDE, MINIMAL WEAR FROM SHELVING.
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Product Description
A wandering Floridian who made his way home in the early 1970s, John Rothchild writes about the state with the savvy of a native and the perspective of an outsider. His personal and historical travelogue reads alternately like a litany of 20th-century ills and a Monty Python rendering of the Great American Dream. In Florida, both versions are true. Settled through the chicanery of a few enterprising brokers and real estate wizards, Rothchild's Florida is a civilization built from scratch, out of the most unusual ingredients. While much of the state seems younger than many of its inhabitants, he observes, it hosts all the modern demographic, economic, and social problems. Still, those ills don't dispel the magic of its sunshine, beaches, and exotic fauna or undermine its status as a great American myth. Told within the framework of Rothchild's travels from Miami to the Everglades, around the state and back again, up for Grabs is part history, part travelogue, part journalism, part autobiography -- a humorous and appreciative tour of a society fabricated from a state of mind and erected on land that was "ninety percent underwater ninety percent of the time".
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Best book on the development of South Florida February 22, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The author did extensive study on the subject. Had all the dates and people correct. The only book I've read about South Florida history that left no grey areas.A must read for native South Floridians like myself.
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