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"This novel distinguishes itself as the personification of frontier life, the elemental struggle of man and nature.""Well researched and impressively detailed."""Well researched and impressively detailed.""
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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp.In VOLUME 1, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, with his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at his side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood.In VOLUME 2, with the birth of Zech and Glenda's son, Solomon, a new generation of MacIveys learns to ride horses, drive cattle, and teach rustlers a thing or two. Sol and his family earn more and more gold doubloons from cattle sales, as well as dollars from their orange groves. They invest it in buying land, once free to all, now owned and fenced and increasingly populated, until it becomes just a land remembered.A teacher's manual is available for using A Land Remembered to teach languagearts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.
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Product details
Series: A Land Remembered (Book 1)
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Pineapple Press; Student Guide edition (March 20, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781561642236
ISBN-13: 978-1561642236
ASIN: 1561642231
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
1,552 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#38,061 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Thoroughly engrossing tale of Early Florida settlers and their interaction with the land.There was so much to this story and because I live in South Florida and am familiar with many of the areas mentioned I felt a deep connection to this book.Vast in space and time, this novel is almost epic. It will resonate with anyone interested in the early agriculture, ranching, economy and role of the railroad in South Florida's progress.The story of the lives of the pioneers struggling to survive is woven into the land, braided with relationships with Native Americans and brought forward with concerns about the environment. Beautifully written with rich, colorful characters, this is a novel I will long remember!
I just got through reading A Land Remembered after having seen it in book stores over and over. I was always curious as to what it was about. Not being a native Floridian (grew up in California), I've been wanting to learn more about the history of Florida and Smith's book was a good way to get a better understanding of what life was like in Florida during and after the Civil War. What I found particularly interesting is the fact that it follows three generations of one family.As Smith's book is historical fiction, this family by name did not exist but it's a reflection of the families who did come South out of Georgia to build a future for themselves with grime and grit.It describes a time that is largely unknown to use today. The hard and grueling work of Tobias to carve out a place in the Floridian wilderness to establish his place. The bold and brave attitude that people had to have in order to build out in Florida. This is something that many people take for granted today and something that most of us will and have never known.I would highly recommend this book to anyway, especially people who live in Florida. It's a good way to get a better understanding of the place you live in.
Historical novel of the frontier in south Florida based on three generations of the MacIvey family – Tobias, Zeck, and Solomon. Starts just before the Civil War and continues up to the 1920’s real estate boom with an epilog shortly after 1960. The MacIvey fortune starts out by collecting and branding wild “yellow-hammer†cattle and then driving them through deep wilderness to a port on the west coast in the Fort Meyers area. Tobias frugally collects a fortune in hard cash while incidentally connecting with the clan of Tiger, a wild Seminole desperately seeking refuge in the swamps south of Lake Okeechobee. The Seminole connection eventually provides herding dogs Nip and Tuck and a tough little mashtackie horse that Zeck learns to expertly manage. A couple of tough former confederate soldiers join the crew for trail drives. Zeck connects with both Seminole girl Tawana and a storekeeper’s daughter Glenda to produce sons Toby and Sol. There is an expedition to roust and then hang rustling and bushwhacking desperados down towards the Ten Thousand Islands. Tobias sees that there is a future in orange groves as the range fills up and fences or development bock the old trail drive routes. Wives also wisely insure that land is purchased and titles secured. This kind of patient acquisition eventually serves as the base for a great real estate empire. This is especially so for fortuitous purchase of drainable swampland below the great lake which proves to be valuable produce land, and apparently useless mangrove swamp land with adjacent beach front that eventually becomes Miami Beach. A major theme here is the tragic loss for all three MacIveys of the women they love. Toby breaks with Sol when he understands that his half-brother has been instrumental in the destruction of his pristine homeland. Sol himself sadly discovers what he has done to that former wilderness paradise even as he recognizes that development would have come whether or not he personally took part in it. In fact, Sol’s outrage when an over eager caretaker obliterates his cherished family home echoes Toby’ much greater loss. The homestead is somewhere on the upper Kissimmee drainage. Some of the landscape description is relevant – the custard-apple thickets, wiregrass prairies, buttonbush clumps along sloughs, the sea of saw grass in the everglades proper, gumbo-limbo and live oaks on hammocks, and the expanse of pickerel weed around the edges of the lake. Wonder if the great wall of mosquitos emerging from the salt grass could be as lethal as portrayed? A lively action story full of well-wrought sentimentality along with a good deal of coincidence in a way novel master Dickens would have heartily approved.
One of our book club members chose this book for a ;monthly meeting. As I read , i felt that the characters were 2-dimensional: either "good" or "bad", and the development of the 3-generational saga not realistic. How can I give this author a "great"? The story just sucked me in. I stayed up olate night after night absorbed in the unfolding story. Other book club members reported the same response. Various members reported that they had fact-checked the major weather and historical eventws described in the book, and they had occurred in the manner described and at the time described. I had never thought of Florida as a "frontier", however I came to think of this book as historical fiction, not of the family, but of the state of Florida itself. I would reacommend this book.
Historical fiction can be about the history or the story, but rarely are both captured so well as in this little fast read. The characters come down from Georgia to start a life, scratching out an existence of sorts. Bit by bit by trial and error, the family tames the wilderness in extraordinary fashion. Several good humorous stories between the twists and turns of frontier tragedy. Great book!
I’ve lived on the coast of Florida for nearly 25 years. I also have a college degree in forestry from Auburn. As a lifetime outdoorsman, this tale of the development of Florida from wilderness to urban was an engaging read. It is a great reminder of the internal battles we all face of greed, anger and selfishness. But there are positive lessons too of hard work, family devotion and racial harmony. Although I don’t agree with every spiritual and moral lesson in the book, I recommend it to anyone wanting to feel caught up in a story that feels authentic while also learning some history of our state from the mid-1800’s to the mid-1900’s.
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