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 this 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, (this volume) 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 language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.
“Few novels come along these days which for power of narration equal this. The reader comes to appreciate the people of all of America’s frontiers as he reads of the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of the intrepid MacIveys.” — Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle-Herald
“The personification of frontier life . . . the elemental struggle of man and nature.” — New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 1-56164-231-2
Paperback $7.95
ISBN: 1-56164-224-X
Size: 6 x 9
200 Pages
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| A Land Remembered Student Edition Vol 2 | Paperback | $7.95 |
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| A Land Remembered Student Edition Vol 2 | Hardback | $14.95 |