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Reclaiming Jacksonville: Stories Behind the River City's Historic Landmarks
by Ennis Davis
The city of Jacksonville has hundreds of buildings that have withstood the test of time. Yet these lasting landmarks tell only a portion of Jacksonville's history. Dozens of other buildings have been abandoned and left to wither, turning into shadows of their former grandeur. Join local writers Ennis Davis and Robert Mann as they go behind the scenes of fourteen crumbling but ethereally beautiful structures to reveal their true pasts.
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Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America
by Miles Harvey
Miles Harvey describes how, in 1564, a group of three hundred French Protestants arrived in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, with the intention of building a permanent European settlement and the colony's eventual destruction by Spanish conquistadors, all recorded in the journal and spectacular drawings of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, the first professional artist to visit North America.
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The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
by Michael Blanding
With antiquarian objects such as centuries-old letters and maps fetching higher and higher prices at auctions these days, an entire criminal subculture has developed that matches the ingenuity of more established art thieves in snatching these items from libraries and museums. Seasoned journalist Blanding takes a closer look at one particularly infamous map thief, E. Forbes Smiley III, and the series of heists Smiley engineered that eventually landed him in prison.
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