This is the first in a series of collections of fiction and nonfiction about Florida by legendary writers who came heresome to escape the chilly North some to find freedom and some to investigate what the fuss was all about. From Audubon in 1834 to Dave Barry in 1990 these writers reveal Floridas natural beauty and her residents human foibles. In poetry John Greenleaf Whittier exposes our shameful slaveholding past and Elizabeth Bishop extols our turtles and sandbars and tropical rain. Jules