Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators - More Stories About Real Florida

Informationen zum Autor Jeff Klinkenberg wrote for the Tampa Bay Times from 1977 to 2014. He is the winner of the Florida Humanities Council 2018 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing; a two-time winner of the Paul Hansell Distinguished Journalism Award, the highest honor given by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors; and a recipient of a 2018 Florida Folk Heritage Award. He is the author of Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida; Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida ; and Seasons of Real Florida. Klappentext Provides a welcome opportunity for readers to discover the character and characters of real Florida. In this compilation, drawn in part from his award-winning columns, Klinkenberg celebrates some of the Sunshine State's most distinctive personalities, including the original Coppertone girl and the actor who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Along the way, he travels to swamps, rickety piers, and Florida's only cook-your-own pancake restaurant.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Klinkenberg
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2011
• EAN: 9780813036946
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-3694-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Florida History and Culture (P; The Florida History and Culture Series; Florida History and Culture (P
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic