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I'm pleased to announce that Doug Armstrong's original text, "French Castaways at Old Cape Canaveral" is now available once again in complete book form. This book was originally published by Doug (Douglas R. Armstrong) years back, and for some time he released it on CD in .doc format. I got a copy directly from him some years ago and printed it up, ring bound it, and had it on the shelf as a reference. Recently, I asked if he would let me reprint it for distribution via Amazon, et al and he agreed.
It is a terrific piece of work, complete with photos, footnotes, bibliography, and, I indexed it. It should be available at Amazon online in a day or two, and I will release it to some of the distributors here in Florida. I will definitely have some copies at the Sunken Treasure Literature Club meeting this January at the FUN show in Orlando. I should have some autographed copies at the show.
For those of you who have been following the threads regarding the French in Florida: Doug, Bill Sauerwalt and others, including your's truly, spent time in the wilds of the Cape and adjoining coastal areas of the Mosquito Lagoon, way back in the sixties, coinshooting and tromping around in the jungle. These areas are now tightly controlled by the Feds, but, the stuff you could find there is simply amazing. Doug found what must have surely been the Indian village where some of the Matanzas survivors managed to live among the Surruques. He made his case very scientifically and found lots of interesting stuff... in fact, there are two display cases at the McClarty Museum today that still hold cobs and other items he has recovered along the coast.
Anyway, here's the blurb for the book from Amazon;
Wrecked on a foreign shore, hunted like animals by the Spanish and hostile Indians alike, a small group of French Huguenots managed to exist for an undetermined period in the wilds of present-day Cape Canaveral. 'French Castaways at Old Cape Canaveral' is a candid and very plausible account of those long lost adventurers, who would otherwise remain unknown in Florida's documented history. This book is a brief recollection of the events leading up to the heinous Matanzas massacre, followed by the investigative report of what may have happened to the few Frenchmen who escaped the Spanish death trap.
More than four hundred years later, the author, in cooperation with the N.P.S. and S.E.A.C. , revisits the 'Armstrong' site. A controlled excavation reveals evidence of a Surruque Indian settlement where these castaways lived with the native people.
Fully indexed with bibliography, the book contains detailed photos of coins and artifacts recovered during the investigation along with scanned reproductions of the manifests for a number of the French vessels involved in the wreck disaster along the Florida coast in 1565.
It is a terrific piece of work, complete with photos, footnotes, bibliography, and, I indexed it. It should be available at Amazon online in a day or two, and I will release it to some of the distributors here in Florida. I will definitely have some copies at the Sunken Treasure Literature Club meeting this January at the FUN show in Orlando. I should have some autographed copies at the show.
For those of you who have been following the threads regarding the French in Florida: Doug, Bill Sauerwalt and others, including your's truly, spent time in the wilds of the Cape and adjoining coastal areas of the Mosquito Lagoon, way back in the sixties, coinshooting and tromping around in the jungle. These areas are now tightly controlled by the Feds, but, the stuff you could find there is simply amazing. Doug found what must have surely been the Indian village where some of the Matanzas survivors managed to live among the Surruques. He made his case very scientifically and found lots of interesting stuff... in fact, there are two display cases at the McClarty Museum today that still hold cobs and other items he has recovered along the coast.
Anyway, here's the blurb for the book from Amazon;
Wrecked on a foreign shore, hunted like animals by the Spanish and hostile Indians alike, a small group of French Huguenots managed to exist for an undetermined period in the wilds of present-day Cape Canaveral. 'French Castaways at Old Cape Canaveral' is a candid and very plausible account of those long lost adventurers, who would otherwise remain unknown in Florida's documented history. This book is a brief recollection of the events leading up to the heinous Matanzas massacre, followed by the investigative report of what may have happened to the few Frenchmen who escaped the Spanish death trap.
More than four hundred years later, the author, in cooperation with the N.P.S. and S.E.A.C. , revisits the 'Armstrong' site. A controlled excavation reveals evidence of a Surruque Indian settlement where these castaways lived with the native people.
Fully indexed with bibliography, the book contains detailed photos of coins and artifacts recovered during the investigation along with scanned reproductions of the manifests for a number of the French vessels involved in the wreck disaster along the Florida coast in 1565.
