Best Backroads of Florida: Beaches and Hills

by Douglas Waitley

Overview

In the first two volumes of this series, Douglas Waitley guided readers through Florida's midland and southern tip. Now follow him along the beaches and over the hills of North Florida, watching rocket launches, meeting dolphins face to face, and trying your luck at the "Worlds Luckiest Fishing Village" along the way. Starting in Titusville on Florida's Atlantic Coast, traversing the Panhandle, and finally rambling down the Gulf Coast to Hernando Beach, this volume offers single-day tours to some of the most interesting and remote small towns along some of the most beautiful roads in the northern third of the the state.

Complete with directions, detailed maps, recommended stops, and photographs of interesting sights, the book offers more than just a glimpse into the past.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561642830
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	Best Backroads of Florida , #3
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	1,052,870
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Douglas Waitley is the author of nineteen books on Americana, ranging in subject matter from regional histories to accounts of the era of steam locomotives. He wrote two volumes of Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida and three volumes of Best Backroads of Florida, also published by Pineapple Press.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
	The Upper Atlantic Coast
	Birds, Beaches, and Blastoffs: Titusville to New Smyrna Beach	7
	The Jungle and the Shore: New Smyrna Beach to St. Augustine	27
	The Sandy World: St. Augustine to Fernandina Beach	53
	Across Northern Florida
	Rambling Through Old-Time Florida: Fernandina Beach to Lake City	73
	The River and the Hills: Lake City to Tallahassee	97
	The Panhandle Circuit
	Backwoods Country: Tallahassee to De Funiak Springs	123
	Tomorrow's Land: DeFuniak Springs to Pensacola	147
	The Glorious Gulf: Pensacola to Ft. Walton	169
	White Sands and Emerald Waters: Ft. Walton to Panama City	185
	Beaches and Honey Bees: Panama City to Apalachicola	203
	The Forgotten Coast: Apalachicola to Tallahassee	227
	The Exotic Nature Coast
	The End of the World: Inglis to Aripeka	251
	Epilogue	275
	Bibliography	276
	Index	281