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The Wit and Humor of Pioneer Florida - Couverture souple

Howell, P.

 
9781420840247: The Wit and Humor of Pioneer Florida
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 142084024X ISBN 13 : 9781420840247
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Mark Twain would have loved and envied this book with its early times lawyers, judges, sportsmen, cowboys, circuit riding preachers and backwoods characters.Like Mark Twain, this elderly native Floridian and country lawyer builds his collection of stories into a saga.Courtrooms, churches, turpentine, citrus and cattle are taken for granted as the rural Floridian's chief concerns. Revival and court trials have much in common in mortal and immortal man at the bar of justice. From these often fierce and smoldering realities, this old Florida cracker recoils into a humorous rendition, sometimes macabre and playful. The southerner will understand all this --- the non-southerner will probably gasp on every page.From his recollections, covering a period of more than eighty years, the author tells about a part of Florida in which he was born and raised. No work of fiction, no treatise on law and sociology, has given so intimate a picture of rural life in the pioneer days of Florida. The third collection of stories in the book, entitled "Dave Newell --- The Huntin'ist and Fishin'ist Gentleman" is worth the price of the book. Dave Newell was a well-known author, artist, hunter, fishermen, producer of outdoor sports television programs, and former editor-in-chief of Field and Stream magazine.Dave Newell was claimed as Leesburg, Florida's Number One Artist, even when he was off chasing around the world in pursuit of panthers, jaguars, mountain lions, tarpon, or Canadian geese.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mark Twain would have loved and envied this book with its early times lawyers, judges, sportsmen, cowboys, circuit riding preachers and backwoods characters.Like Mark Twain, this elderly native Floridian and country lawyer builds his collection of stories into a saga.Courtrooms, churches, turpentine, citrus and cattle are taken for granted as the rural Floridian's chief concerns. Revival and court trials have much in common in mortal and immortal man at the bar of justice. From these often fierce and smoldering realities, this old Florida cracker recoils into a humorous rendition, sometimes macabre and playful. The southerner will understand all this --- the non-southerner will probably gasp on every page.From his recollections, covering a period of more than eighty years, the author tells about a part of Florida in which he was born and raised. No work of fiction, no treatise on law and sociology, has given so intimate a picture of rural life in the pioneer days of Florida. The third collection of stories in the book, entitled "Dave Newell --- The Huntin'ist and Fishin'ist Gentleman" is worth the price of the book. Dave Newell was a well-known author, artist, hunter, fishermen, producer of outdoor sports television programs, and former editor-in-chief of Field and Stream magazine.Dave Newell was claimed as Leesburg, Florida's Number One Artist, even when he was off chasing around the world in pursuit of panthers, jaguars, mountain lions, tarpon, or Canadian geese.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mr. Howell is Mr. Howell is a native Floridian. He is an attorney with the firm of Howell, Taylor & Duggan in Leesburg, Florida, where he has practiced since 1948. He served as City Judge of the City of Leesburg from 1952 to 1957. He has been a member of The Gideons International since 1971. He is vice president and a founding director of Associated Christian Television System, Inc. which operates WACX-TV Channel 55 out of Orlando. He is married and has four daughters, five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.This is his second book. His first book, Piney Woods, Swamp Water and 'Gator Tales, was published by Lifestyles Press, Tavares, Florida, in 1998.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
142084024X
ISBN 13 
9781420840247
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
148
Coordonnées du fabricant
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