Half a millennium ago, in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León departed Puerto Rico for the verdant island of “Bimini”—an uncharted land in what is now the Bahamas.

Books about Ponce de León at the University of Florida’s P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History range from the 1700s to now and cast the same story in different lights.

Vol. 14, No. 1, History of Juan Ponce de Leon's Voyages to Florida (Jul., 1935), pp. 51-66 (16 pages) The Florida Historical Society is the successor of the Historical Society of Florida, founded in ...