LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sandra wallus sammons

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  • The Three Marjories
    SANDRA SAMMONS WALLUS / Sandra Wallus Sammons
    Florida is lucky to have had three women — three Marjories — speaking out about saving Florida’s natural environment.Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the 'Mother of the Everglades.' She wrote The Everglades: River of Grass, the seminal and now classic book on this unique region of south Florida. She was a tireless campaigner for the environment and helped make the Everglade...
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    11,37 €

  • John and William Bartram
    Sandra Wallus Sammons
    A juvenile biography of father and son, John and William Bartram, naturalists who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in America. The Bartrams were America’s first native botanists, father and son travelers, plant hunters, and master gardeners. They traveled the east coast and observed and wrote about the nature they found. Their story is full of adventure and curio...
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    16,00 €

  • Ponce de Leon and the Discovery of Florida
    Sandra Wallus Sammons
    Juan Ponce de Leon was a young soldier in Spain when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the New World. De Leon accompanied him on his second voyage, and later became Governor of Puerto Rico. On voyages of his own, he explored other islands and discovered an even larger land—Florida. This biography captures the excitement of finding a 'new world.' ...
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    8,23 €

  • The Two Henrys
    Sandra W Sammons / Sandra Wallus Sammons
    They shared first names. They both first came to Florida looking for a healthy place for their wives. And they both fell in love with the place and with its potential. Henry Plant and Henry Flagler also shared passions for railroads and hotels—and they both ignored the word 'impossible.'Henry Plant, who had steamships in addition to railroads, was determined to have his trains ...
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    8,77 €

  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers
    Dr Sandra Sammons / Sandra Wallus Sammons
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy...
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    7,30 €

  • Henry Flagler, Builder of Florida
    Dr Sandra Sammons / Sandra Wallus Sammons
    An exciting biography about the man who changed Florida’s east coast with his hotels and his Florida East Coast Railway.Henry Morrison Flagler was already a millionaire when he first visited Florida in 1878. He liked what he saw. He came back and built railroads along the east coast so that others could more easily come. And he built grand hotels so that those who came had a be...
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    7,43 €