It's an all-time favorite book of everyone to whom I've suggested it. Reads like a Michener novel, can't put it down, and when finished we felt like our best friend had left forever.
A Land Remembered was winner of the Florida Historical Society's Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel. Now in its 14th hardcover printing, it has been in print since 1984 and is also available in trade paperback.
See book at Amazon:
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