For most people, today's Florida means palm trees, beaches, and Mickey Mouse. But there's another, more timeless, Florida, of black people and white people fishing together with cane poles; of century-old inns with winding stair-wells and elaborate gardens; of forests of live oak, pine, and palmetto, where the only sounds to be heard are the crickets and the wind.

Come travel the back roads of the Sunshine State with David Warner. You'll find, in the pages of this book, wonderful new places to see and important new events to understand. Visit Cross Creek, where the film of the same name was made, and where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote The Yearling. Spend a chapter with legendary African American writer Zora Neale Hurston as she grows up in the all-black community of Eatonville. Get to know Leicester Hemingway, who, some people say, was twice the man his brother Ernest was. And your visit is just beginning . . .