A Land Remembered

Patrick D. Smith here 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, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history.

A best-selling novel of Florida historical fiction, A Land Remembered was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and received the state's highest literary award from the Florida Historical Society, the 1986 Tebeau Prize for the Most Outstanding Florida Historical novel.

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• Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers: Florida History and Culture
• As It Should Be: Tales of Old Florida
• The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
• The Buckskin Line
• The Yearling
• Where the Crawdads Sing
• Jack Hinson's One-Man War
• The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
• The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West