Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West [Paperback]

Candace Leslie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2003 | Series: Hidden Florida Keys & Everglades

Reveals the flavor of the Keys with reviews of over 70 restaurants, and a virtual tropical-plant and flower guide featuring nature hikes and botanical gardens.

Editorial Reviews

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The Hidden guidebook series hot-peppers its pages with little arrows that point to a multitude of off-the-tourist-track sites

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Ulysses Press; 8th edition (November 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569753741
• ISBN-13: 978-1569753743
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,126,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK for Key West, not so good for Everglades, March 13, 2004

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One of the Wyghts (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West (Paperback)

Although the book lists several interesting and out of the way spots for the Keys, it was disappointing for the Everglades area. Shops, stops, sites around Homestead that were described glowingly were disappointing. I would prefer a book that describes "nothing" spots as exactly that. We went out of our way to places that were not worth going to.

Better for the Keys and Key West, very helpful there.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, August 11, 2004

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Michele (West Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West (Paperback)

I own a whole library worth of travel books and this is one of my favorites! Great suggestions for things to do and places to see. Plus her style of writing is very engaging. I really found it helpful in the Keys!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Buried Treasure", February 17, 2005

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Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West (Paperback)

Not every guidebook on the keys would feature such an unassuming place as Jim and Val's Tugboat Restaurant in Key Largo. Jim and Val's Tugboat is one of the true "buried treasures" of Florida, and this guidebook has enough sense to put it in bold. Wonder if we'll see the place over-run by "foodies" who will go anywhere to try something new.

Long ago, pirates prowled the waters around the keys, and nowadays, it's chic to blame the congestion of the keys on tourists, but sometimes it's just people drawn to the good food (like the steak poivre which is simply out of this world) or people trying to find out what drew poet Wallace Stevens back, year after year, to the Key West hotel about which he wrote such a haunting poem. This guidebook will be a nice souvenir for you, even if you haven't been in Key Largo for some time. It will bring it all back to you--the salty creosote smell, the cerise skies that turn inky at night, the stars that twinkle right above your head--you can almost catch one by the toe.