Weird Florida
Your Travel Guide to Florida's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
Published on 1. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4027-6684-8 (ISBN)
Description
Florida is renowned for sun, surf, sand & senior citizens and is a favorite holiday destination for more than a million Brits each year. Charlie Carlson, a tenth-generation Floridian, has traveled the length of Florida looking for the odd and the offbeat and he found them everywhere, from the Skunk Ape to the Devil's Chair of Cassadaga, the She-Man of the Caloosahatchee River to the Wizard of Central Florida. This latest addition to the Weird series is packed with info about the Sunshine State that they don't include in the regular guidebooks. Venture beyond Disney World, if you dare...
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Union Square & Co.
Illustrations
full colour throughout, includes photographs
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 203 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4027-6684-8 (9781402766848)
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Persons
Charlie Carlson is a folk-historian, author and explorer of unexplained phenomena. He has appeared in several television documentaries and has played a folklore historian in the Curse of the Blair Witch on the Sci-Fi Channel. As an enthusiast of Florida's past, he has served on the boards of several historical organizations.