{"product_id":"the-tropic-of-cracker-the-florida-history-and-culture-series","title":"The Tropic of Cracker (The Florida History and Culture Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAl Burts 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 Floridas Tropic of Cracker  not with lines of latitude and longitude but with stories.  The 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 todayalong 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 Floridas panthers  snakes  alligators  and hurricanes. There are luminaries among themZora Neale Hurston  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  Virgil Hawkins  John DeGrove  Harry Crewsbut mostly they are just regular folk who mark the borders of the elusive and magical Tropic of Cracker.  For anyone who loves the old Florida  Tropic of Cracker is the states truest road map and Al Burt its most eloquent cartographer.  A volume in the Florida History and Culture series  edited by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965085675573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813016959","price":59.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813016955.jpg?v=1770488309","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tropic-of-cracker-the-florida-history-and-culture-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}