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Product Identifiers
PublisherClowder Publishing
ISBN-100615780563
ISBN-139780615780566
eBay Product ID (ePID)168006763
Product Key Features
Book TitleChetwynd Chronicles
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century
GenreHistory
AuthorD. R. S. Bott
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight13.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
SynopsisAn Orange Fever epidemic surged throughout Florida in the early 1880s. Aggressive land agents, not all of them scrupulous, set up shops in nearly every county while their representatives abroad romanced prospective settlers in Europe, particularly England. Lured by the prospect of reaping a fortune from growing citrus, combined with the promise of cheap land, and a healthy sub-tropical climate, a young, entrepreneurial Englishman, Granville Chetwynd-Stapylton succumbed. In the winter of 1882, he set his feet onto land that he described as, " . . .colonial with unbroken pine forest, without road or railway." Those conditions began to change-rapidly. The Chetwynd Chronicles is the only account ever written about the brief life and perils of the British colony of Chetwynd, located in the northwest corner of Lake County, Florida,- roughly an area between Lady Lake and Leesburg-and of its developer, Chetwynd-Stapylton. Throughout the nearly 20 years of its existence, colonists-most of them English, young, and university educated bachelors-came to learn the citrus culture, stayed a few years, and migrated. Remarkably, over 140 of them are identified and their footsteps followed all over the world.
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- 27. Aug. 2023
Interesting book
Love history. Interesting subject matter from the years gone by.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
