In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three
generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the
hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to
the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in
1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to
start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two
generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that
the land has been exploited far beyond human need.
The sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida
history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers
battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes,
starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the
swamp. But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed,
including finally their own.
Love and tenderness are here too: the hopes and passions of each
new generation, friendships with the persecuted blacks and Indians,
and respect for the land and its wildlife.
Patrick Smith's novel is now available for young readers. 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.
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