Author: Patrick D Smith Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1561645834 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 227
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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 who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. 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. See all of the books in this series
Author: Andre R. Frattino Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1683340221 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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This graphic novel version of A Land Remembered, the bestselling novel by Patrick D. Smith, covers three generations of the MacIvey family in the Florida frontier from the 1850s to the 1960s. In A Land Remembered, Patrick Smith tells the story of 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. A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine and is winner of the Florida Historical Society's Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel."
Author: Edwina Raffa Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1561648353 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 69
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Teacher's manual for Escape to the Everglades. Includes crossword puzzles, recipes for Seminole foods, how to play stickball and build a model of a chickee. Sunshine State Standards.
Author: Marilyn Bishop Shaw Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc ISBN: 1561643491 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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Young Solomon works as hard as his parents, all former slaves, to make a living from their remote Florida homestead in the 1860s, but is encouraged in his dreams of a more adventurous life by Mr. Pete, a family friend and former Virginia plantation owner who now gathers and sells unclaimed cattle.
Author: Patrick D. Smith Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1561645400 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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Award winning Florida novelist Patrick Smith's first novel, The River Is Home revolves around a Mississippi family's struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live—with its food supply, steamboats, and floods—figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, it's filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion.
Author: Zack C. Waters Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc ISBN: 1561643505 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 138
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After his father's death in World War II, fourteen-year-old Harley Wallace tries to join the Marines but is, instead, sent to live with his grandfather in Peru Landing, Florida, where he soon joins a covert effort to stop Nazis from destroying a secret airbase on Tampa Bay.
Author: Edwina Raffa Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc ISBN: 1561643513 Category : Everglades (Fla.) Languages : en Pages : 114
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Raised as a Seminole, Will Cypress is eager to join Osceola and his followers in the late 1830s as they battle white soldiers in the second Seminole War, fighting to remain in their Florida homelands, until a chance meeting with his white father's relatives causes Will to question his loyalties.
Author: Patrick D Smith Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1561645427 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 186
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Twenty-five-year-old Seminole Toby Tiger lives in despair in the Florida Everglades. He loves the land and everything that exists in the natural world: the deer and egrets, turtles and herons, cypress trees and sawgrass, ponds and marshes, and, most of all, Allapattah, the crocodile. He watches helplessly as the white man imposes his will on the Seminoles, forcing them either to conform or to eke out a living wrestling alligators and carving trinkets for tourists. According to Toby, the whites “destroy all that they touch." Toby refuses to bend to the white man's will and fights back the only way he knows how. He becomes Allapattah, a creature that earns his respect and protection.
Author: Mariwan N. H. Barznji Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546280588 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 113
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This edited book is the work of four years where the writers try to present a different study and understanding of some of T. S. Eliots poetry and his unique style of being a modern poet, not exactly like the other modernist poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. We have found that Eliot, in his poetry and prose writings, was a modernist writer who, unlike other modernist poets, did not accept the way others rejected the values of religion and tradition. Eliot focuses more on the role of religion and tradition in the psychological state of the individual and its impact upon the social stability. His viewpoint regarding the vital role of spirituality in the life of the individual could be clearly seen in his poetic poems and prose writings, but this aspect has been too little or not tackled as it is done with Homer.
Author: Margaret Sessions Paschal
Author: Patrick D Smith
Author: Andre R. Frattino
Author: Edwina Raffa
Author: Marilyn Bishop Shaw
Author: Patrick D. Smith
Author: Zack C. Waters
Author: Edwina Raffa
Author: Patrick D Smith
Author: Mariwan N. H. Barznji