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Totch: A Life in the Everglades | 
 enlarge | Author: Loren G. "totch" Brown
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 222376
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 279
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0813012287
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.939
EAN: 9780813012285
ASIN: 0813012287
Publication Date: October 1993
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Good book especially if you've been to the area January 23, 2008
My first impression of Totch after only 10 pages wasn't very good. But I gave it a chance and I am glad I did. I have kayaked/camped at most of the places he lived and visited in the book. Reading about his experiences and how life was back when he was growing up and relating to my experiences was wonderful. His easy way of telling stories reminded me of some of the people I've met and camped with down in the Everglades - possibly one of those strangers was him...
I totally related and understood most of his situations with nature, mosquitoes, and the weather. Yes, he did some illegal things but you would have to have been raised in the area or at least know the area and the people to really understand.
Highly recommend for anyone who has explored the area and for those interested in the history and how life was in the area.
 Immerse yourself in the past December 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received this book after a family member visited Totch country. As an avid historian I immediately dived in to this book and never looked back. It was an honest look at a "time forgotten" by a man who presented his life as it was, the good & the bad portions. Don't hesitate to buy this and take a journey with Touch. This is the real Florida & not the Disney version.
I am making a special trip to Florida in January of 2008 just to visit this place with my two young boys!
An Amazing Life Story February 26, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a wonderfully informative and touching story of a great and honorable man. Through Totch we learn of a nearly forgotten way of life and we see the Everglades as it used to be. I appreciate his honesty and plainspokeness and I'm thankful Totch made this book to preserve an important history. I also recommend the three movies made about him: Totch Brown's tales of the Everglades and 10,000 islands, The Everglades outlaw Totch Brown, and Yesterday's Everglades.
South Florida revisited August 30, 2002
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Any south Florida history buff will want to add "Totch' to their collection.
 Totch a Life in the Everglades October 12, 2001
14 out of 35 found this review helpful
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.
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