![]() ![]() His reporting on Florida environmental issues, first for the Tampa Bay Times and now for the Florida Phoenix, has won numerous state and national awards, and his freelance work has appeared in the Washington Post, Politico and CrimeReads. He is a native Floridian and graduated from Troy State University in Alabama, where his muckraking work for the student paper prompted an agitated dean to label him "the most destructive force on campus." Since then he has covered a variety of newspaper beats and quite a few natural disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires and the Florida Legislature. He also co-hosts the "Welcome to Florida" podcast. He's also written "The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid," (2012) which delves into the wild world of orchid-smuggling "Manatee Insanity: Inside the War Over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species" (2010) and, with Mathew Waite, "Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss" (2009). ![]() His most recent book is "The State You're In: Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife (2021). ![]() Craig Pittman is the author of six books about Florida, including "Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country," (2016) which became a New York Times bestseller, and "Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther" (2020). ![]()
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Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe offers a home away from home for the North African immigrant workers at the great abattoirs of Vaugirard who, as with Houria and Sabiha themselves, have grown used to the smell of blood in the air. ![]() Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, a small Tunisian cafe in Paris. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. ![]() Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. ![]() ![]() Winston Company, never did a good job of indicating first editions.and if it weren't for a couple "missing" elements, a first edition of this book would be nearly impossible to identify. ![]() ![]() So maybe I missed something the first time around.Īs as adult, I've found YOUNG FU to be one of the hardest Newbery first editions to identify. 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