Highways and Byways of Florida

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Excerpt from Highways and Byways of Florida: Human Interest Information for Travellers in Florida, And for Those Travellers Who Are Kept at Home by Chance or Necessity, but Who Journey Far and Wide on the Wings of Fancy This book is an attempt to include in readable form all the human interest information concerning Florida that the space will permit. I have sought for what is characteristic and significant in nature and in history, in the observations of travelers present and past, in commercial and industrial enterprise on land and sea, and for that which is illuminating and entertaining in literature, legend, and humor. It has been my custom to supply the illustrations for my travel books with my own camera, and I had intended to make photographs for this Florida book as usual. But our part in the World War interfered with my plans. I walked out on a wharf at a Gulf port in quest of camera material and soon found myself arrested as a suspected German spy. For two days and a night I was behind prison bars. When I was released, the official prediction was that I would have further disagreeable experiences of the sort if I persisted in my purpose to make photographs, and I decided to gather the illustrations in other ways. Later the old saying that "Misfortunes never come singly" was corroborated when a fire at the engravers destroyed most of the pictures I had secured, and I had to collect material anew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.