sentences:  For many years he wrote a back-page column for "The Miami Herald" Sunday magazine on interesting people and places around Florida that drew him quite a following.Florida author David Nolan said he used to buy the Herald just so he could read Al Burt's column.Many of those columns were collected in book form in "Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes" (1984), "Al Burt's Florida" (1997), and "Tropic of Cracker" (1999).