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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