Present, The Florida Reader- Visions of Paradise- From 1530 to the by Reader, The Florida -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction A Florida Chronology I. Imperial Paradise: The Spanish and the French

De Orbe Novo Decades (1530) The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca (1542) The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando de Soto (1557) The Whole and True Discoverye of Terra Florida (1563)

II. Imperial Paradise: The British

Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal (1699) A Proclamation (1764) The Travels of William Bartram (1791)

III. Republican Paradise

Journals (1827-28) Letters from the Frontiers (1830) St. John’s River in Florida (1834) Notice to Emigrants (1837)

IV: Strangers in Paradise: Indians and Blacks

Paintings of the Timucua (1564) Atala (1801) The Seminoles (1855) The Rape of Florida (1884) The Seminoles of Florida (1896) The Eatonville Anthology (1926); How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928) Seminole Songs and Stories

V: Victorian Paradise

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1867) A Guidebook of Florida and the South (1869) Palmetto Leaves (1873) The Southern States of North America (1875) Florida (1875) (Abbie Brooks), Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes (1880) Floridian Reveries (1911)

VI. East of Eden

The Open Boat (1897) Makers of Moonshine (1908) The Eden Isle (1920) Tales of Southern Rivers (1924) Florida Letters (1935) Farewell to Florida (1935) Florida: A Guide (1939) Cross Creek (1942) The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) How to Retire to Florida (1947) Hard Times (1970) Poaching Gators for Fun and Profit (1982) Adult Mobile Homes (1986) Florida’s Vanishing Architecture (1987) Miami: City of the Future (1987)

Selected Bibliography Index