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Title: Totch: A Life in the Everglades by Loren G. "Totch" Brown, Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0813012287 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8
Rating: 5
Summary: South Florida revisited
Comment: Any south Florida history buff will want to add "Totch' to their collection.
Rating: 1
Summary: Totch a Life in the Everglades
Comment: Don't be misled by Peter Matthiessen's forward, this one is not for the ecologically friendly faint-of-heart. Totch was a one man ecological disaster, constantly on the move wrecking havoc on the wildlife wherever he went. His life of slaughtering animals for personal profit was a willful life choice, hardly dictated by the times, as he claims in his self-serving attempts to justify his pogrom against nature. His self-indulgence was carried to the extreme by illegally poaching thousands of alligators in the protected Everglades National Park in defiance of the laws of man and nature. The purpose for his illegal acts was personal profit, to skin the animals, only using their hides. Their dead carcasses, several hundred in a period of a few days, were dumped into the water to rot. This was hardly an act of survival. He did this because he wanted to, not because he had to. There are several other books, more accurate, better written, and less self-centered, that better describe the early pioneers of Southwest Florida. Rather than augment Totch's bloody legacy by buying his book, I encourage readers interested in the Everglades to look elsewhere, and leave Totch's book describing his carnage against nature to rot, like one of his skinned alligator carcasses, on the ash pile of despicable acts by the self-indulgent.
Rating: 5
Summary: A view into the past...
Comment: Totch is a fascinating book written in a natural writer's style illustrating how it really was down in the islands.The chapters not only offer us the life of Totch Brown but share photos and history unmatched in any other source I have found. Any reader interested in Florida history and/or anyone who was mesmerized by Peter Matthiessen's trilogy (Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone) will revel in this book's information. The photographs add so much to the story offering a glimpse at this rather mysterious corner of Southwest Florida (where else, for example, can one see a photo of Ted Smallwood's store as it looked at the turn of the century?). I read it cover to cover without putting it down, and I turn to it often for Florida history/environmental/sociology information. A great find for any lover of Florida history! Totch offers us all a real glimpse into the lives and lore of inordinately tough, brave people who were real pioneers in a little known and enigmatic part of America.
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Title: Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0679734058 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Evergaldes by Rob Storter, Betty S. Briggs, Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0820320668 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Lost Man's River by Peter Mattiessen, Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 067973564X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith ISBN: 0910923124 Publisher: Pineapple Pr Pub. Date: 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean by Les Standiford, Henry Morrison Flagler ISBN: 0609607480 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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