The Florida Keys: A History & Guide Tenth Edition (Florida Keys)
by Joy Williams
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Author: Joy WilliamsIllustrator: Robert Carawan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-23
ISBN: 0812968425
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Book Review: Still the Gold Standard
Summary: 5 Stars
Joy Williams' tenth, and apparently last, edition of "The Florida Keys - a History and Guide" maintains its Gold Standard status as the best Florida Keys and Key West guide ever written, and one of the best guide books ever, period.
Why? Joy discusses the Keys, and Key West in particular, as one would recount one's long affair with a lover -- the initial attaction and beauty, the magnetic strangeness and appeal, some history and anecdote, fascinating facts and details, humor and sadness. Yes, the Everglades, the Keys, and Key West have become polluted, commercialized, and Key West something of a parody of itself. But this is also true of the mountain west and all our other favorite places--but not a reason to quit going there. It is still wondrous and strange, beautiful and fascinating.
Visitors who discover Key West now will love the place, but will come to dislike it as time and tides morph and erode both it and themselves. And Joy's book should be required reading before they go.
Marsh Muirhead -- author of "Key West Explained -- a guide for the traveler."
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