Francis William Zettler

Florida has an amazing biohistory. Its fossil record reveals that 8-ton ground sloths, giant beavers, and tiny horses once roamed its 66,000 square miles. Its human history is the story of people who arrived some 12,000 years ago after a journey that took them from Asia across the Bering land bri...

Examines Alachua County and its immediate surroundings from a chronological perspective, beginning when Florida was still connected to the African continent and ending in modern times. The book also describes the plants and animals that made this area their home after it emerged from the sea.