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Brown, Loren "Totch" G.

Totch: A Life in the Everglades

Trade Paperback, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993. Reprint. New.

Fine softcover: new & unread. The author relates his family's history of surviving on the edge of poverty on the outskirts of the Florida Everglades. The colorful recollections of an Everglades old-timer, Loren "Totch" Brown, whose father was a moonshiner and who, himself, hunted alligators and smuggled marijuana. It was a hardscrabble life--particularly when it involved farming or fishing on the shell islands. Then again, it was a wonderful life; Totch always had a great time, it seems, hiring out to Hollywood and getting to know Peter Falk and Burl Ives, or running a charter and watching Richard Nixon fall from the boat and Ted Simmons stop to play ball with local school children. Totch was a principal source for Peter Matthiessen's 1990 Everglades novel, Killing Mister Watson, and Matthiessen contributes a heartfelt introduction.--Booklist. [ 279 pages; 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches ]


ISBN: 9780813012285           Item #sdb10785            Price: $17.95
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