{"product_id":"the-tropic-of-cracker-the-florida-history-and-culture-series-9780813016955","title":"The Tropic of Cracker (The Florida History and Culture Series)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Tropic of Cracker (The Florida History and Culture Series)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Burt, Al. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780813016955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAl Burt’s Tropic of Cracker is a state of mind shared by those who love \"what remains of the Florida that needed no blueprint or balance sheet for its creation, that was here before there was a can opener or a commercial or a real-estate agent.\" In his years of roving the state as a Miami Herald columnist, Al Burt mapped Florida’s Tropic of Cracker, not with lines of latitude and longitude but with stories.\n\nThe Crackers Burt tells of are men and women from Apalachicola to the Everglades, from Tallahassee to the Keys. They lived in the late 1800s, and they live today—along the Ocklawaha and in the floodplains of Lake Okeechobee. They were cow hunters, Conchs, and alligator men. They grew oranges, sugarcane, and muscadine grapes. They made moonshine. They drove mules, ate fried mullet, and told yarns in a Cracker creole about Florida’s panthers, snakes, alligators, and hurricanes. There are luminaries among them—Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Virgil Hawkins, John DeGrove, Harry Crews—but mostly they are just regular folk who mark the borders of the elusive and magical Tropic of Cracker.\n\nFor anyone who loves the old Florida, Tropic of Cracker is the state’s truest road map and Al Burt its most eloquent cartographer.\n\nA volume in the Florida History and Culture series, edited by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965085675573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813016959","price":52.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813016955_a9c557ad-0a48-4f56-8224-5c354ac01c11.jpg?v=1792366142","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tropic-of-cracker-the-florida-history-and-culture-series-9780813016955","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}