Harris Stewart
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Whimsical cartoons and humorous light verses cover Florida from A to Z--from alligators to zoos. Harris Stewart's wit tackles tax
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es and tourists, spring break and spring training, marine turtles and millionaires, birds and beaches, hurricanes, Cuban rafters, developers, coral reefs, fishing, diving, Key West sunsets, snowbirds, senior citizens, shopping malls, the Everglades, Seminole Indians, offshore drilling and much more. Illustrated by John C. Holden
About the Author
Harris Stewart has resided a good part of the year in Florida since 1967 when he moved to Coral Gables. He is retired as the founding director of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Virginia Key. He is a graduate of Princeton and holds a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceonaography in California. He was an Army Air Corps pilot in the Southwest Pacific during World War II and for more than two decades was an oceanographer with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A "snowbird," he spends part of the year Naples, Florida and the rest in coastal Maine.
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