Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators
More Stories About Real Florida
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8130-3694-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
13 black and white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-3694-6 (9780813036946)
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E-Book
04/2011
1st Edition
University Press of Florida
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Person
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.