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.