For those who believe that the best way to understand someone is to walk a mile in his or her shoes, Florida's rich history features those whose footwear ranged from Native American moccasins to astronauts' boots. And there are plenty of opportunities to "actually "walk in those shoes. You can join in all sorts of historical reenactments--in full costume if you like. You have the unique opportunity to relive a part of Florida's long and fascinating past.

You can also travel forward into the future. The Florida peninsula has been like a springboard from which human beings can rocket into space or dive beneath the surfaces of its nearly surrounding waters.

This unique guidebook offers you time travel. The day has arrived for this new kind of travelogue, which reveals not only places to visit but also time periods to experience. This is a book for today's explorers of place and space, past and future. This is "The Time Traveler's Guide to Florida."

A sample of the times you can visit:
12,000 B.C.: Stone Age and Primitive Arts Festival "Ochlockonee "
1565: The Menendez Landing Event "St. Augustine"
1586: Drake's Raid "St. Augustine"
1650-1725: The Pirates of Fort Taylor "Key West"
1690s: Military Muster at Castillo San Luis "Tallahassee"
Late 1700s: The Living Village of Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki "Big Cypress Seminole Reservation"
1835: The Dade Battle "Bushnell"
1864: The Battle of Olustee "Baker County"
1870: A Cane Boil at Morningside Farm "Gainesville"
1898: A Spanish-American War Event "Fernandina Beach"
1945: VE Day in Florida "The Villages"
2025: The Zero-G Flights "Cape Kennedy "
est. 2050: Jules Undersea Lodge "Key Largo"

Spectral visions, footsteps in the attic, thumps in the night. Who hasn't witnessed or heard such things and not thought of ghosts? Join your guide, author Jack Powell, on a wild ride from Pensacola to Jacksonville and down to Key West, touring Florida's places and history through some of its best ghost stories. Powell has woven together a creepy collection of tales. Explore the darker side of the Sunshine State.
- What horrible fate awalted the pirate's lover in Pensacola?
- Care to check out the last crop Edgar Watson planted on his farm in the Everglades?
- When will the ghost leave baby Carly's room?