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- ISBN
- 9781561645657
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pineapple Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1561645656
ISBN-13
9781561645657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143625642
Product Key Features
Book Title
Allapattah
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
General, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-026328
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A powerful report on the white man's destruction of nature and the Seminoles' anger and despair. Allapattah will make the reader think.
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Twenty-five-year-old Seminole Toby Tiger lives in despair in the Florida Everglades. He loves the land and everything that exists in the natural world: the deer and egrets, turtles and herons, cypress trees and sawgrass, ponds and marshes, and, most of all, Allapattah, the crocodile. He watches helplessly as the white man imposes his will on the Seminoles, forcing them either to conform or to eke out a living wrestling alligators and carving trinkets for tourists. According to Toby, the whites "destroy all that they touch. Toby refuses to bend to the white man's will and fights back the only way he knows how. He becomes Allapattah, a creature that earns his respect and protection., Twenty-five-year-old Seminole Toby Tiger lives in despair in the Florida Everglades. He loves the land and everything that exists in the natural world: the deer and egrets, turtles and herons, cypress trees and sawgrass, ponds and marshes, and, most of all, Allapattah, the crocodile. He watches helplessly as the white man imposes his will on the Seminoles, forcing them either to conform or to eke out a living wrestling alligators and carving trinkets for tourists. According to Toby, the whites "destroy all that they touch." Toby refuses to bend to the white man's will and fights back the only way he knows how. He becomes Allapattah, a creature that earns his respect and protection., The story of Toby Tiger, a young Seminole in the Everglades who is in despair at having to live in the white man's world. "Allapattah" means alligator or crocodile, a creature which becomes Toby Tiger's obsession, and he must wrestle it to set himself free.
LC Classification Number
PS3569.M53785A79
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