Ybor City: The Making of a Landmark Town

In 1885, Vicente Martinez Ybor purchased 40 acres of land northeast of Tampa, and there he began the cigar industry that would soon draw thousands of immigrants to Ybor City

Frank T. Lastra

University of Tampa Press

Frank Trebin Lastra

Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Richard Terrill

Travelers & Explorers

The Second Seminole War s day-to-day reality can be discovered in no single source better than through the Henry Prince diary. Here the past is brought truly to life. (Canter Brown, Jr.)

Amidst A Storm of Bullets: The Diary of Lt. Henry Prince in Florida, 1836-1842

Henry Prince

The Library Window

This masterpiece of short fiction, narrated in first-person by a woman remembering a summer in her girlhood, is both a ghost story and a Kunstlerroman (novel of the artist's life) in miniature, in which Oliphant explores the possibilities and conflicts of a life dedicated to writing.

Literature & Fiction

Oliphant

Literary

When A WOODCUT MANUAL was first published in 1932, readers and reviewers noted how the personality of the author, J. J. Lankes (1884-1960), shone forth in both the technical chapters and in the profuse illustrations. This presence -- characterized as practical, straightforward, familiar and wise -- made what might have been an exposition of cold facts into an engaging, human document of remarkable charm and beauty. But the country was in a depression, which meant that the volume never reached the audience it might have in more flourishing times. It went quietly out of print in the late 1930s. However, Lankes lived till 1960, producing distinguished woodcuts for many of these years and involving himself in the changing cultural milieu, on which he commented in a seemingly endless stream of correspondence and in a number of thoughtful, candid writings on the state of the arts in America. In this new edition the original text of 1932 is supplemented by a rich selection of unpublished letters and other writings that give an extended, as well as a rounded view of an authentic American genius who was as incisive with the pen as with the wood graver. The leading authority of Lankes, Dr. Welford D. Taylor, provides a comprehensive introduction to this edition that touches on the author's life and work, his friendships, and the history of the making and publication of this classic work.

A Woodcut Manual

Julius J. Lankes

Arts & Photography

The First Noble Truth

Steve Kowit

Poetry

Used.Good Condition.Softcover.By Steve Kowit.University of Tampa Press,77 Pages.Poems.

The First Noble Truth by Steve Kowit (2007) Paperback

Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise: The Story of Caladesi Island

Myrtle Scharrer Betz is a born storyteller with a marvelous tale to tell. Her account of growing up on Caladesi Island is one of the richest portraits available of life in Florida when it truly was the natural, tropical paradise that tourists and residents alike can only dream of discovering today.Told with compelling honesty and humanity, this tale by the only child ever born on Caladesi Island captures the natural wonders, discomforts, challenges, and joys of pioneer life on a Florida West Coast barrier island, spanning the time from when her father, Henry Scharrer, first arrived in America from Switzerland in 1883 until his death in 1934.This new and enlarged edition includes more than 130 historic illustrations providing a visual legacy to complement Myrtle s narrative, and granddaughter Terry Fortner has added a timeline to clarify the history, extending to the years before and after the narrative itself.With wisdom, insight, and poetry, Myrtle Sharrer Betz has written a book that is sure to become a Florida treasure. In consideration of the future as well as preservation of the past, sales from the book support the Henry Scharrer Memorial Fund to underwrite projects at Caladesi and Honeymoon Island State Parks.

Myrtle Scharrer Betz

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