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Greetings
Guy Bradley
Appearances
Biography
Books
©2004 Stuart McIver
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Here is a more complete list of my books, which you would undoubtedly enjoy reading.
Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism. (hardback, University Press of Florida, 2003)
In the 19th century Age of Extermination plume birds were nearly wiped out by the demands of the fashion industry. Bradley, an Audubon warden, confronted the plume hunters of the Everglades-and lost his life protecting the birds.
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Touched by the Sun.
(hardback, Pineapple Press, 2001)
A collection of true tales starring presidents, cowboys, gangsters, baseball players, a fire chief, and the world's first female movie director who came to the Everglades from Paris, France.
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Murder in the Tropics.
(hardback, Pineapple Press, 1995)
Florida's murderers and victims include a popular Indian chief, the first Civil Rights activist killed for his beliefs, a modern-day pirate, a gangland warlord, a sideshow performer called Lobster Boy, the world's richest woman and the legendary Ed Watson.
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Dreamers, Schemers, and Scalawags.
(trade paperback, Pineapple Press, 1994)
An introduction to such great characters as Oliver Hardy, Zora Neale Hurston, the invincible Indian Sam Jones, the animators who created Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman, slaves who established America's first "underground railroad" into Florida, and finally, Ned Buntline, who served in the Second Seminole War and lived to the be the first American to write novels about the Everglades. |
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Hemingway's Key West.
(trade paperback, Pineapple Press, 1993, second printing)
The story of one of America's greatest writers and certainly our most flamboyant. The book covers the years when he lived in Key West and then his impact on the city long after his death; includes chapters on his time in Bimini and Cuba as well as a self-guided walking tour of his Key West hangouts.
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Rating the Presidents, coauthor with William Ridings, Jr.
(trade paperback, Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing, 1997, second printing)
Book based on the results of a national poll, surveys the administration of every American president from George Washington through Bill Clinton.
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True Tales of the Everglades
(paperback, Florida Flair Books, 1989, sixth printing)
A collection of stories about the Everglades, the Ten Thousand Islands and Florida Keys, including the exploits of plume hunters, steamboat captains, dredgers, road builders, environmentalists, airboaters, Seminole and Miccosukee Indians, a missionary and a visionary who, unsuccessfully, built bat towers to fight off salt-marsh mosquitoes.
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