Author : James F. Kaserman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0595471528
Presents the history of piracy and smuggling along the hundreds of miles of Southwest Florida's coast from the early 17th century to the present day and the pirates that gave their names to various locales along the coast.
Author : James F. Kaserman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609494193
The coast of southwest Florida, with its shallow waters, inlets, and mangrove islands provides the setting and backdrop for a variety of pirates, privateers, and independents. The history of this region and Florida as a whole is influenced largely by the illegal activities of piracy. Piracy has a long and rich tradition in this area dating from before the formation of America through the infamous prohibition era. Educators, authors, and pirate enthusiasts James and Sarah Kaserman recount the stories, legends and myths that surround piracy in Florida. Telling the tales of Anne Bonny, Calico Jack Rackham, Civil War smugglers and prohibition rum runners, the authors provide a compelling narrative of the historically dangerous waters around Southwest Florida and beyond.
Author : Wilson Hawthorne
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2019-01-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781793989161
School's out for the summer in Florida. For young Harley Cooper, that means endless days of adventure on the bays and cays around Pine Island. With his sea-going black lab, Hammerhead, by his side, Harley fishes the pristine waters for blue crab to help his mom make ends meet. When he hauls up an ancient treasure map one day, summer vacation explodes into a hunt for Spanish gold. A mysterious hermit, known only as Salt, steers Harley toward hidden doubloons with swashbuckling tales of the infamous pirate Gasparilla. But, does the hermit have reasons of his own? Or will nature have the final say when she sends a monster hurricane to hammer the coast? Harley Cooper explains it all in an action-packed diddie he calls The Last Pirate.
Author : Tim McBride
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250051282
In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers--middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. His elaborate team comprised fishermen, drivers, stock houses, security--seemingly all of Chokoloskee Island was in on the operation. As McBride came to accept his new role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands. Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride, now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to him. McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. A self-proclaimed "Saltwater Cowboy," he would evade the Coast Guard for years, facing volatile Colombian drug lords and risking betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally ran out. A tale of crime and excess, Saltwater Cowboy is the gripping memoir of one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history.
Author : Randy Wayne White
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0735212805
Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in this New York Times bestseller in Randy Wayne White's thrilling series. Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this. His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its director, Leonard Nickelby, despises amateur archaeologists, which is bad enough, but now he and his young "assistant" have disappeared--along with Fitzpatrick's impounded cache of rare Spanish coins and the list of uncharted wreck sites Fitz spent decades putting together. Some of Fitz's own explorations have been a little...dicey, so he can't go to the authorities. Doc is his only hope. But greed makes people do terrible things: rob, cheat, even kill. With stakes this high, there's no way the thieves will go quietly--and Doc's just put himself in their crosshairs.
Author : James F. Kaserman
Publisher : Author House
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1452042217
In Gasparilla Pirate Genius, the times are rough, the murders are graphic and savage; sex can be raw, revenge is vicious, and treatment of women, gentle or crude. Kaserman introduces us to the wisdom of this legendary pirate, ideas that may help civilization in the millennium. This is a story of POWER, ROMANCE, and TRAGEDY. "Best Florida Book" --- 2001 Florida Publisher's Association President's Award "An informative mixture of history and mythology that delves into Florida's romantic past." ----Gene Landrum, Ph.D., author and lecturer
Author : Cynthia A. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1439662967
Although best known as the winter home of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, Fort Myers has one of the most engaging and extraordinary histories of any city in Florida. The spawn of a hurricane, Fort Myers began as a U.S. Army post during Florida's Seminole Wars. During the Civil War, it became a battleground between Confederates and Yankees for cattle and, after the war, a gun-slinging cowboy town. New York cartoonist Walt McDougall blew into the area on a fishing trip, and his glowing description lured down other wealthy Yankee sportsmen who helped turn this isolated frontier town into a modern tourist destination. Historian and author Cynthia Williams explores the hidden stories behind the growth of this beautiful city.
Author : Tony Dokoupil
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307739481
A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow smugglers, Anthony Edward Dokoupil was the Old Man. He ran stateside operations for one of the largest marijuana rings of the twentieth century. In all they sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana, and Big Tony distributed at least fifty tons of it. To his son he was a rambling man who was also somehow a present father, a self-destructive addict who ruined everything but affection. Here Tony Dokoupil blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age.
Author : Karen T. Bartlett
Publisher : Mostly Kids LLC
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780990973102
A (mostly) Kids' Guide to Naples, Marco Island & The Everglades is the region's first guidebook for families with children. The 80-page softcover book, with more than 150 full color photographs, is a fun and humorous kids'-eye view of the beaches, nature preserves, attractions and experiences on land and sea. From awesome museums and attractions in sophisticated Naples to outrageously exciting adventures deep in the Everglades, A (mostly) Kids' Guide to Naples, Marco Island & The Everglades is packed with tidbits of regional history and trivia that even parents, grandparents, educators and armchair travelers will love. They'll laugh out loud right along with the kids at some of the strange stories and quirky creatures that inhabit this exciting land. Airboats and swamp buggies, pirates and Indians, even the legendary Skunk Ape - it's all inside, along with a comprehensive index with websites and phone numbers. A (mostly) Kids' Guide to Naples, Marco Island & The Everglades covers activities for all ages from toddler to teen. It's a must for anyone planning a visit to Florida, as well as newcomers and local kids who want to find even more exiting things to do in their own backyard. Author Karen T. Bartlett is an award-winning travel journalist and photographer who was lucky enough to raise two children in this wild and wonderful land. Her published works include 11 travel destination books and hundreds of travel features in regional and national magazines.
Author : Marianne LaCroix
Publisher : Elloras Cave Pub Incorporated
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2008-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781419957437
Torrid Tarot - Crossed SwordsBy Marianne LaCroix Arabella Prescott's dreams of marriage were shattered when her fianc was murdered by pirates. When she is kidnapped by the roguishly handsome Captain Fredrick Thorne, Arabella is determined to fight him with every inch of her being. She will not become the pirate's lover - no matter her body's unexpected desires. Fredrick quickly discovers Arabella's weakness - him. Her feisty spirit amuses and her sweet innocence inflames, and when she resists his seductive touch, he forces her to submit to his desires - awakening intense passions even he had not foreseen. But with her sensual defeat comes a price neither are prepared to pay. At the news of her kidnapping, Arabella's father, Governor Prescott, begins the hunt for Thorne's ship, Neptune's Sword, to save Arabella - and finally capture the most dangerous pirate upon the Caribbean. He will stop at nothing to see Thorne pay for his crimes at the end of the hangman's rope. Reader Advisory: Crossed Swords contains scenes of forced seduction. Sea Hawk's MistressBy Marianne LaCroix On summer vacation from grad school, Shelley Hanover takes part in a modern-day treasure hunt on a newly discovered Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys. During the dive, Shelley finds a silver bangle, and when the clasp opens, she is swept into a sudden water vortex - and into the arms of a sexy-as-sin pirate. Captain Jason Flint finds a woman floating in the wreckage of his latest victory, strangely dressed and wearing a sex-slave band. He decides to keep her as his private pleasure captive, and they enjoy each other's hot flesh as they sail the cool Caribbean waters. But when a rival captain kidnaps Shelley, Jason realizes he's lost something greater than any pirate treasure.
