Best Florida Bike Trails - Bicyling in Florida

Updated second edition covering the best Florida bike trails. Jam-packed guide to the best cycling in Florida, both road and off-road.

Customer Reviews

Excellent guide to Florida bike trails
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This book provides great information on Florida trails, both on and off road. It adds in a fair bit of information that it's chief rival, "Florida's Paved Bike Trails" leaves out, like cross roads and alternate trail access points. Plus the latter only offers information on the paved trails. I checked out both of these books from my local library and ended up returning the latter and keeping this one for an extra two weeks. In the end, if it is a topic you are interested in they are both worth the read. I just felt this book had a little more information in it.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #90701 in Books
* Published on: 2007-10-30
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 232 pages

Great article on St. Marks Trail - 19 miles from Tallahassee Florida to St. Marks

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement’s lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a Tallahassee bus called the Sunnyland in Tallahassee, Florida. Their plan was simple but dangerous: ride the bus together—three blacks and three whites—get arrested, and take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years later Ana Maria Spagna sets off on a journey to understand what happened and why.

Spagna travels from her remote mountain home in the Pacific Northwest to contemporary Tallahassee, searching for the truth of the incident and her father’s involvement. Her journey is complicated by the fact that her father never spoke of the Sunnyland experience and died unexpectedly when she was eleven. Seeking out the other bus riders, now in their seventies, Spagna tries to make sense of their conflicting stories. Her odyssey becomes further troubled by the sudden diagnosis of her mother’s terminal cancer.

Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction prize, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus deftly weaves cultural and personal history, memoir, and reportage in this fascinating look at a family and a nation’s past.

Review
"Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus is an absorbing story of a daughter's search to understand her father's involvement in the civil rights movement. While Ana Maria Spagna's ability to capture the nuances of her father's life is impressive, it is the wonder and persistence she brings to her tale that make this such an engaging book. Any daughter who has puzzled over the mystery of her heritage will love Spagna from the get-go."-Danielle Trussoni, author of Falling Through the Earth (Danielle Trussoni )

About the Author
Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the Seattle Times. Her work has appeared widely in publications such as Orion, Utne Reader, and North American Review. She lives and writes in Stehekin, Washington.

Tallahassee Florida Images of America by Erik Robinson

Located in the rolling hills of Florida‘s Panhandle, Tallahassee has long stood as a capital city.

Throughout prosperity and adversity, both Tallahassee’s population and complexity have continued to increase. Combining historic landmarks, such as the San Luis Archaeological Site and the Old City, and new neighborhoods, such as Frenchtown and Lafayette Park, the capital city is a unique representation of Florida, from its days as a territory to its status as one of the country’s most visited states.
It has been home to prehistoric Native Americans, who built the Lake Jackson Mounds in the 13th century; the Apalachee Indians, who learned to live with the Spanish Mission in the 17th century; and to European settlers and the American residents of today. Tallahassee’s tree-lined, canopied roads and bountiful dogwoods and azaleas have always been associated with the leadership and history of the state. The presence of institutions such as Florida State University and Florida A&M have also made Tallahassee an attractive center of higher learning and diversity.

About the Author
Author Erik T. Robinson has lived and worked in this vibrant city for more than 20 years; he serves as curator at the Museum of Florida History. Here he has collected both familiar and never-before-seen photographs that take the reader through the cityís colorful past up to its promising future in the 21st century.

Tallahassee, A Capital City History (FL) (Making of America) Tallahassee, A Capital City History (Making of America)

Tallahassee, A Capital City History (FL) (Making of America)

Since its exploration in the early sixteenth century, the geography of today's Sunshine State has been hotly contested, both through diplomacy and violence, by various forces of Spanish, French, British, and Native American influence.

As late as the nineteenth century, Florida's people and soil remained controversial land emerging as vital, accessible territory for expansion for the nascent American population. Through a combination of political maneuvering and coercive action, the American government secured much of Florida and soon established the new town of Tallahassee as the capital seat, situated in the Red Hills region between the two most populous settlements: St. Augustine and Pensacola.

Tallahassee: A Capital City History chronicles the story of the city's growth from a frontier community into a modern Southern metropolis, renowned for its beauty, football, and political dramas. First, readers will journey with Panfilo de Narvaez, Hernando de Soto, and other waves of Spanish adventurers searching for the promise of gold and silver as they explored the lush wilderness that was Tallahassee.

From there, readers discover a landscape ever changing as the centuries brought new settlers with pioneer visions of growth and wealth. Touching upon the major eras of this cityís history, antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, the Depression, and Civil Rights, this comprehensive volume details the full identity of Tallahassee, celebrating its major figures and remembering the contributions of many of its everyday people, who truly shaped the course of Tallahassee's evolution.

Books about Tallahassee - Historic Photos of Tallahassee

Historic Photos of Tallahassee by Andy Edel

By the late nineteenth century, the city of Tallahassee was a vibrant cultural center of the South. Through changing fortunes, Tallahassee has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.

Historic Photos of Tallahassee captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From the Adams-Onis treaty to the 1905 Buckman Act, the accreditation of Florida A&M to the construction of Dale Mabry Air Field, Historic Photos of Tallahassee follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history.

This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic Tallahassee Florida photographs.

Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.