A Land Remembered has become Florida\'s favorite novel.
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Zech learns the ways of the Land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood.
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.
In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side.
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.
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.
Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier.
Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers.
A Land Remembered has become Florida\'s favorite novel
