Forever Island

Forever Island
Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 118
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393355246
ISBN-13 : 0393355241
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Forever Island by : Patrick D. Smith

Download or read book Forever Island written by Patrick D. Smith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic and heartbreaking tale of one man’s fight to protect nature, and a treasured way of life, against the forces of greed. In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the old ways, hunting and fishing in the great swamp and farming a tiny plot of higher ground. Charlie has been diligently teaching his grandson, Timmy, about the swamp and its creatures. But their simple existence is suddenly threatened when a large tract of swamp is bought by a corporation, and Charlie is told that he will have to leave. From his youth, Charlie remembers the slaughter of egrets and alligators by the white man and the logging of the giant cypress. Rather than surrender the land that is his life to this final indignity, Charlie decides to fight back. It is an uneven contest. First come the great machines that silt up the streams; then the workmen inadvertently poison the marsh; and, attempting to sabotage the construction equipment, Charlie’s best friend is killed. Realizing that there can be no compromise with the white man who destroys all he touches, Charlie leaves his family and feels into the swamp, seeking the lost island known in the Seminole legends as Forever Island.


Forever Island Related Books

Forever Island
Language: en
Pages: 118
Authors: Patrick D. Smith
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973-01-01 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A classic and heartbreaking tale of one man’s fight to protect nature, and a treasured way of life, against the forces of greed. In a corner of the Big Cypres
A Land Remembered
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Patrick D Smith
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Forever Island ; And, Allapattah
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Patrick D. Smith
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Allapattah
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Patrick D. Smith
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
We Are the Middle of Forever
Language: en
Pages: 387
Authors: Dahr Jamail
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-09 - Publisher: The New Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With a new afterword by the authors A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s future Al