THE LAST TRAIN TO PARADISE Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Changed an Ocean

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An oversized limited commemorative edition of acclaimed South Florida author LesStandifords gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectaculardemise of the Key West extension of Henry Flaglers Florida East Coast Railway originally published in 2002 and now in its 20th printing.This edition commemorating the completion of the Over-Sea Railroad January 22 1912 includes a linen cloth cover special heavy stock silver foil stamping a double gatefold ahand-tipped map and 150 new and vintage photographs and illustrations. Curators andhistorians at the Library of Congress the Monroe County Library in Key West and at theFlagler Museum in Palm Beach assisted Creative Director Petra Mason with imagesourcing as did staff at The Cooper-Hewitt Museum New York. Many of the images inthis edition have never been published before.A Books & Books Press production in association with Motherland Miamiand The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Palm Beach Florida.328 pages10 x 8 150 illustrations HC ISBN 978-0-9839378-0-7$60.00