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The tropic of cracker

Title: The tropic of cracker / Al Burt ; foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary Mormino.
Author: Burt, Al.
Publication: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [1999], ©1999.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	F316.2 .B84 1999	Off-site

Description

xiv, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Crack of the old-time cow hunter's whip gave the native Floridian a nickname, but Al Burt's The Tropic of Cracker is a state of mind shared by those who love "what remains of the Florida that needed no blueprint or balance sheet for its creation, that was here before there was a can opener or a commercial or a real-estate agent.""--BOOK JACKET.
"The Crackers Burt tells of are men and women from Apalachicola to the Everglades, from Tallahassee to the Keys. They lived in the late 1800s, and they live today - along the Ocklawaha and in the floodplains of Lake Okeechobee. They were cow hunters, Conchs, and alligator men. They grew oranges, sugarcane, and muscadine grapes. They made moonshine. They drove mules, ate fried mullet, and told yarns in a Cracker creole about Florida's panthers, snakes, alligators, and hurricanes.
There are luminaries among them, and writing about them - Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Virgil Hawkins, John DeGrove, Harry Crews - but mostly they are just regular folk who mark the borders of the elusive and magical Tropic of Cracker."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Florida history and culture series

Uniform Title

Florida history and culture series.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

ISBN

0813016959 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99018371

OCLC

ocm40813375

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries