{"product_id":"palmetto-leaves-harriet-beecher-stowe-9780813034911","title":"Palmetto Leaves","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1867, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin settled in a small cottage in Mandarin, Florida, overlooking the St. Johns River. She had promised her Boston publisher another novel but was so taken with northeast Florida that she produced instead a series of sketches of the land and the people which she submitted in 1872 under the title Palmetto Leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStowe describes life in Florida in the latter half of the 19th century--\"a tumble-down, wild, panicky kind of life--this general happy-go-luckiness which Florida inculcates.\" Her idyllic sketches of picnicking, sailing, and river touring expeditions and simple stories of events and people in this tropical \"winter summer\" land became the first unsolicited promotional writing to interest northern tourists in Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harriet Beecher Stowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813034914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813034911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Harriet Beecher Stowe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202676113663,"sku":"9780813034911","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d4aa2ec2-857c-4223-9ce1-c760532ffc73.jpg?v=1756833074","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/palmetto-leaves-harriet-beecher-stowe-9780813034911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}