This Graphic Novel version of A Land Remembered, the bestselling Novel by Patrick D.
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.".
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.
But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own.
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.
The story opens in 1858, when Tobias Mac Ivey 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 Mac Ivey, who realizes that the Land has been exploited far beyond human need.
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.
Smith, covers three generations of the Mac Ivey family in the Florida frontier from the 1850s to the 1960s.
This Graphic Novel version of A Land Remembered, the bestselling Novel by Patrick D
