Florida has a long and complex and very interesting history, but few of us have time to read it in depth. So here are 200 quick looks at Florida's 10,000 years of history, from the arrival of the first natives to the present.

And Edna St. Vincent Millay watched in shock as her manuscript went up in flames in Sanibel. Florida historian James Clark tells the stories of scores of writers including Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, John D. MacDonald, and Stephen King.

But beneath the famous legends of Florida’s storied past are intriguing tales that don’t appear in the popular guides or history books.

This book also invites the reader into the relevant literature with ample quotations from original texts.

This edition marks the first appearance of the original novella as Wolfe wrote it and its first publication as a book.