"The perfume of the orange blossoms . . . the beauty of every scene, combine to make me wonder whether I am not in Paradise," wrote one visitor to Winter Park, Florida, in 1918. Just five miles north of Orlando, Winter Park's oak-lined brick streets and its quiet lakes have been attracting visitors since the late 19th century, when U.S. president Chester A. Arthur declared, "This is the prettiest spot I have seen in Florida." The New England-like city in the heart of the subtropics was once home to the Seminole Hotel, the largest resort south of Jacksonville. In 1885, prestigious Rollins College was founded here, the first institution of higher learning in Florida.

Winter Park in Vintage Postcards (Postcard History Series)

Arts & Photography

Chapman, Robin

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

After Don Quixote's death, his squire, Sancho Panza, has been unable to settle back into his former life. He longs for more romance than reality can supply. He confides in the local barber and together they conspire to escape from their village and create and ideal pastoral life for themselves up in the hills. Once there they will live like classical sheperds in Arcadia writing sonnets, enjoying milk and honey, and wooing perfect sheperdesses. When they turn this fantasy into fact the resulting confusions are observed, and partly related, by Don Quixote's old horse Rocinante, and Sancho's ageless donkey, Rucio. Thanks to their knowledge of their owners' previous adventures readers of this sequel to Don Quixote need not have read Cervantes's masterpiece.

Sancho's Golden Age

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Aris & Phillips

SHAKESPEARE'S DON QUIXOTE recreates what might have been: a lost play presented at Whitehall Palace in 1613. That year Shakespeare's company provided 14 plays for a royal wedding. One was called Cardenio. The original script has never been found but an 18th century version, retitled Double Falsehood, may contain echoes of their work together. Cardenio's story occurs in Don Quixote, Cervantes's universal best-seller, wherein the vexed teenager protagonist encounters the would-be knight errant and his sceptical squire. If Shakespeare's attention was drawn to the story's dramatic potential it seems likely it would have featured Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, since by that time Cervantes's double act was appearing on stage and in carnivals worldwide. Acting upon this hypothesis Robin Chapman's novel plays out today in a theatre of the mind. Among the audience the reader will find the attentive spirits of Shakespeare, Fletcher and Cervantes who soon become involved with each other and in the performance.

Shakespeare's Don Quixote

Literary

Book Now Publishing

For centuries, California's environment has nurtured remarkable people. Ohlone Lope Inigo found a way to protect his family in troubled times on the shores of San Francisco Bay. Pioneer Juana Briones made a fortune from her rancho yet took the time to care for those in need. Innovator Thomas Foon Chew discovered a climate for success, in spite of the obstacles. Around the region that became Silicon Valley, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin found inspiration, poet Robert Louis Stevenson uncovered adventure and Sarah Winchester built a house that would intrigue people long after she was gone. Author Robin Chapman shares fascinating tales of those who exemplify the enterprising spirit of the Golden State.

Historic Bay Area Visionaries (American Chronicles)

The History Press

Review\n"A good read on history ... a great companion to the previous works by this Santa Clara Valley native ... " Sal Pizarro, San Jose Mercury News\n"Chapman keeps her literary fans delighted by continuing to dust off fascinating facts, not known by most of the public ... " C. MacDonald, See California.com\n"An affectionate download from the heart ..." Jeanne Cooper, Nob Hill Gazette\n"The Valley of Heart's Delight is a gift to all who love the Bay Area ... " Pat Marriott, Los Altos Town Crier\nThe Santa Clara Valley, with its rich soil and sunny weather, has been home to great diversity and great innovation long before it became known as Silicon Valley.\nCalifornia's first immigrants from Mexico were astonished by its beauty. "The land is moist and the hills have an abundance of rosemary and herbs, sunflowers in bloom, vines as plentiful as a vineyard," wrote one. From the movie stars of Hollywood's golden era who once came to play to billionaires who grew apricots for pleasure, the valley has hosted orchards, electric railroads, Army camps and even a love-struck poet.\nJoin author and historian Robin Chapman as she uncovers the true tales of this ever-changing place.

The Valley of Heart's Delight: True Tales from Around the Bay (American Chronicles)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Picked warm from a tree, a California apricot opens into halves as easily as if it came with a dotted line down its center. The seed infuses the core with a hint of almond; the fruit carries the scent of citrus and jasmine; and it tastes, some say, like manna from heaven. In these pages, Robin Chapman recalls the season when the Santa Clara Valley was the largest apricot producer in the world and recounts the stories of Silicon Valley's now lost orchards. From the Spaniards in the eighteenth century who first planted apricots in the Mission Santa Clara gardens to the post-World War II families who built their homes among subdivided orchards, relive the long summer days ripe with bumper crops of this much-anticipated delicacy.

California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley

Business & Money

Industries

History Press Library Editions

Valley of Heart's Delight: True Tales from Around the Bay (American Chronicles)

History PR

California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley (American Palate)

In 1593, Queen Elizabeth's secret service agents arrested Thomas Kyd. According to him, their purpose was to gain an indictment of his friend, Christopher Marlowe, an atheist. Three days later, after torture, he signed the indictment. Marlowe died. This espionage novel describes these events.

Christoferus or Tom Kyd's Revenge

Sinclair-Stevenson

Poetry. The author of three previous poetry collections continues her luminous and bittersweet narrative style. Robin Chapman is a poetic voice you can settle into, learn from, come to know and trust. Whether she is writing of her childhood in a nuclear boom town or her now grown children or the passions and pleasures of nature, Chapman draws you into her world with the deftest of gestures and the surest of language. THE WAY IN is a generous book, full of life, and a true pleasure to read -- Jesse Lee Kercheval.

The Way In

MILLER, PETER

Poetry

Small Press Distribution

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