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A masterful meditation on Ireland's Connemara region and its natural and cultural geographies from "the Proust and Ruskin of modern place-writing" (Robert Macfarlane).The late Tim Robinson steals us away to the southern part of the Connemara region, to the hilly backroads, storied villages, and endless bogs and bays where the Irish language is everywhere alive and flowing through its distinctive places and people. And Robinson rapturously details them all: from tiny literary haven Ros Muc and its famed language keeper and revolutionary writer Patrick Pearse, to Mongan's Hotel bar in the Carna peninsula, where folklorist Sean Mac Giollarnath told tales, to Muckanaghederdauhaulia village, "the hog-back between two arms of the sea," where "brandy has been brewing for generations in these little farmhouses, potato plots, and nooks of the shoreline," Robinson brings this extraordinary place rapturously to life.Here, geography, history, and philosophy are one--and only fully apprehended on foot, in conversation, the most commonplace of anecdotes braided with transcendent meaning. Theory and life happen simultaneously in this kingdom, the relationship found and forged in the writing of it. Robinson's encyclopedic knowledge and innate humility and curiosity make for a singularly rich read, "resurrecting the ignored or forgotten from under our feet" (New York Review of Books).

The Third novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Gladesman is, in addition, the Second novel in the "Port Starboard" sub-series.From the darkest depths of the Everglades comes the Gladesman, and the tiny hamlet of Port Starboard will never be the same.The Gladesman, a disgusting, vile swamp dweller comes to Port Starboard - a tiny settlement on the northwest shore of 1880's Lake Worth - and everything goes downhill from there. Because of him, however, the residents discover that Maggie Hooker, a black woman and the town's shopkeeper/postmistress, is the glue that holds the community together.

This story appears in Tim Robinson's first novel, "Tales of Old Florida." In this edition it has been re-formated for young readers. Shipwrecks, pirates, buried treasure; desolate windswept islands, jungled forests, and the mysterious Everglade - dark and foreboding to all but the Seminole and Miccosuki. Imagine growing up in such a place, no one for miles around, only you and your family. This is the world young Charlie MacLeod was born into. To him it is nothing unusual. It is simply home.

[Rating: PG] The Nineteenth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, Milton's Big Night Out is, in addition, the First novel in the "Bad Dog" sub-series. Pappy and Buddy were living the life, everything running smooth as cream on the farm. All was in order. Life was good. Plenty of time to sit back and soak in Pappy's hot bathtub out by the horse turnout (Pappy, not Buddy, although Buddy tried his best to climb in with him that one time). Yes, all was good at The Last Resort. That is until one fated night, that unalterable moment when Pappy forgot to pull the laundry room door closed.

The Eighth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Good Dog is the prequel to The Cow Hunters. This is the story of one dog's journey to discover a place called home.

Three men in a boat, a tiny boat on a raging sea. The Seventh novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Hermit continues the tale of Charlie MacLeod.

[Rating: PG] The Twenty-fourth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Puppy that Cried Woof is, in addition, the Third novel in the "Bad Dog" sub-series. Pappy and Buddy were living the life, no problems, all smooth as sweet cream; that is until that fateful day, the day Uncle Joe called, and said, "I got puppies. Ya want one?"

The Homesteaders is the sequel to Tim Robinson's first novel, Tales of Old Florida, and answers a myriad of questions that persist. Many of our most loved, and hated, characters return to find out what happens to Charlie MacLeod and Salty, his little green bird and constant companion. Is there some power on earth that can bring a broken man once again into the folds of humanity? Will the new preacher's wife, the feisty Maude Wickman, split the community along racial lines? Can anyone save the day? And if so, who?

Best Fiction, Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award, 2018. [Rating: PG-13, violence] The Ninth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Indian Fighter is, in addition, the First novel in the "Indian Fighter" sub-series. For Jubal and Evie Prescott, there was only one answer: find a new land and create their own opportunities. Indeed, to confront their own destiny. The Second Seminole War would be the longest and most costly of all Indian conflicts in the United States in both lives and national treasure. In 1842, Colonel William J. Worth, commander of the Florida Campaign, declared hostilities at an end. Although as many as 3,000 Seminole and Miccosukee had been relocated to the Oklahoma Territory, several enclaves remained in the extreme southern portions of the peninsula at Big Cypress, Fisheating Creek, Catfish Lake, and New River. A census taken three years later accounted for 120 warriors, (70 Seminoles, 30 Miccosukee, 12 Creek, 4 Uchee, and 4 Choctaw), 100 women, and 140 children - a total of 360 souls. The Florida Indians had prevailed, and old Sam Jones would fulfill his vow to die in the land of his birth.

[Warning: this book has been described as both hilarious and ridiculous; read at your own risk] [Rating: R, for language; NOTE, a cleaned-up edition is available, ASIN B09FS9ZFGX] The Twelfth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, this is a story of what might happen if Ponce de Leon had been right. Bamboo returns for his swan song and, in the process, prompts us to ask that eternal question: Are there really angels?

[Rating: PG-13] The Thirteenth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Last Caloosa is, in addition, the Third and final novel in the "Indian Fighter" sub-series. The proverbial fork in the road: which path to follow? Bridges burned. No turning back. One can never know to where a single, momentary decision might lead, whether it be to a good place, or to a very, very bad place, indeed, to the gates of Hell.

[Attention: This book completes the tale of Charlie MacLeod and Jubal Prescott and is not intended for fledgling, unseasoned readers of the series, A Tropical Frontier]In the Twelfth book in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Deep Blue Sea, we bid a bittersweet farewell to a Jolly Sailor and an old Indian Fighter.

[Warning: this book has been described as both hilarious and ridiculous; read at your own risk]The Sixth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, Time Rummers is, in addition, the Third novel in the "Port Starboard" sub-series.Whatever will be will be. But what happens when dreams become reality, when unbridled imaginations supplant the laws of nature? For Gnarles and Paddy it can be very confusing, but for a certain resident of Port Starboard it can mean the difference between life and death. Can the diminutive drunks find a way to save the day, to upend reality and turn the tables on Father Time? Maybe, but not without a little help from the patron saint of shipwrecked sailors himself.

Best Fiction, Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award, 2015. [Rating: R, for violence and language] The Fourth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Cow Hunters is the sequel to The Good Dog.The Florida Prairie, 1860, cattle country. War looms, but to the settlers living along a jungled, tropical creek, it all seems very far away. For Becky Hackensaw, there are much more pressing matters, such as providing an education for her six children, but where to find someone willing to brave an uninhabited wilderness overrun with wild animals, alligators, venomous snakes, and bloodthirsty mosquitoes?

Here is Connemara, experienced at a walker's pace. From cartographer Robinson comes the second title in the Seedbank series, a breathtakingly intimate exploration of one beloved place's geography, ecology, and history. "Exceptional...A book about one place which is also about the whole world."--Robert MacFarlane.lane.

[Rating: PG-13] The Seventeenth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, The Reef is, in addition, the Second novel in the "Brigand" sub-series. Young Nathan MacLeod has been arrested as a follower of William Augustus Bowles: revolutionary, sworn enemy of the Spanish Crown, and conspirator with the Florida Indians. Imprisoned in the notorious El Morro Castle in Havana, prospects look grim, that is until news of Nathan's capture reaches Arabelle O'Shea, an orphan who lives in a hermitage in the eastern Georgia wilderness. From there, events take on a life of their own. In this, the sequel to "The Brigand," Arabelle is reunited with her old swashbuckler mates, the former crew of the dreaded pirate vessel Non Conception, and the riotous adventure begins. Will they rescue their friend from the clutches of the evil and recalcitrant governor of Cuba, Pasqual Santiago? Or will this spell the end for our dubious heroes?