Adventure Guide Tampa Bay & Florida's West Coast (Adventure Guide to Tampa Bay & Florida's West Coast)
This easy-to-use book is packed with practical information and  enticing facts that make it fun to read: "Sarasota owes its  development and artistic reputation to, ironically, the circus, which  wintered there beginning in the late 1800s. In contrast to circus  raucousness, however, John Ringling was a man swayed by esthetics. The  art he loved had a bit of three-ring showiness to it, nonetheless, as  shown by the baroque Italianate palace he built himself in  Sarasota." A clean, attractive layout makes it easy to find what  you're looking for within each of the book's six sections, whether it  be suggestions for finding the best food, lodging, kayaking, fishing,  or shopping; even driving directions are included.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.