Sandspurs: Notes from a Coastal Columnist

by Mark R. Lane and Mark Lane

Far from the myth of surf, sand, and orange juice, Mark Lane's snapshots of life in the Sunshine State are more likely to feature gargantuan insects than bikini-clad coeds.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813032342
• ISBN13: 9780813032344
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious Look Inside the Real Florida

This book is a compilation of the hilariously insightful columns of Daytona Beach News Journal writer Mark Lane. Florida, of both the past and present, is a hard place to explain...one that tourists don't often get a sense of until they decide to move there. His columns reveal this odd, quirky, wonderful place...a world of hurricanes, alligators, bugs the size of shoes, NASCAR devotees, over-zealous developers, misguided tourists and cartoonish politicians. I LOVE his survival-of-the-fittest Darwinian Gardener who, unlike most, makes no attempt to tame a yard born to be wild. A must read for any Floridian, or would-be Floridian!