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Designed by planning pioneers Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk—the same husband-and-wife team who rose to prominence for their design of Seaside—Rosemary Beach is a decidedly different community. Whereas Seaside evokes small-town America, Rosemary Beach evokes the ambiance of a preindustrial city, featuring a more urban landscape than previous New Urbanism developments.
When ol’ Cap’n Claus suddenly appears in his tugboat pulled by a team of eight seahorses, he surprises a weary first mate who has just begun his night watch on Christmas Eve. Hardcover.
Designed by small-town planning pioneers Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Seaside has been called “probably the most influential resort community since Versailles” (Newsweek). Hardcover.
Tourists from every continent travel to Seaside, Florida, to enjoy its beautiful beaches, award-winning architecture, diverse restaurants, and wide program of cultural and sports events. Now the serene twilight cityscapes, intimate interiors, and even the Yellow House (the first home in Seaside) are presented to you in this dazzling collection of twelve notecards. By taking in this artistically photographed assortment, it is easy to see all of the elements that make Seaside the small town that has influenced architecture throughout the world. Notecards.
The creators of Seaside developed it around the fundamental idea that a community is forged by a social, pleasant design—thus, the picket fences on all structures decreed in the Seaside Code. The fences that range so dazzlingly in form and style are required not only for their aesthetic appeal, but also for their unique ability to define space within the community. Steven Brooke captures it all in stunning detail in the photographic journey Seaside Picket Fences. Paperback.
Now the serene twilight cityscapes, intimate interiors, and even the Yellow House (the first home in Seaside) are presented to you in this dazzling collection of thirty postcards. By flipping through this artistically photographed assortment, it is easy to see all of the elements that make Seaside the small town that has influenced architecture throughout the world. Postcards.
Pink, daughter of the fierce pirate, Captain Red Beard, wants to go to sea to find out what the life of a pirate is really like. Pink imagines great adventures, strange new lands, and interesting people with stories to tell. Once aboard the ship, she finds that being a pirate is not what she thought. Hardcover.
The classic cumulative tale There Was an Old Lady gets a Floridian flourish in this charming adaptation!
Drawing upon the lore of the true cracker, Vic Knight’s Florida points out everything you thought you knew about Florida. Sit back with the wit and wisdom of a tenth-generation native as he tells the real history of the Sunshine State that you didn’t learn in school. Covering five centuries of people and events, plus speculations on the next century as well, Vic Knight’s Florida spins the yarns that give Florida its unique character.
When a storm blows in, Jimmy dreads spending the afternoon indoors, but his grandfather knows exactly how to pass the time. He ventures into the cupboard and pulls out dusty, old books—the journals of Jimmy’s seafaring great-great-great-grandfather, James Earl Silas Tuckingham.