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Robert Taylor wrote the Voyage to Matecumbe which describes early life in Florida.
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer never had the troubles that Commercial Appeal, Uncle Jim, Davey and a host of others overcame on their way down the Mississippi, over to Florida and down to the Keys. For Commercial Appeal, the story ended almost as soon as it began and with his death, the pair remained one step ahead of vigilantes as they paired with others always just on the shady side of the law.
But true love triumphs, at least for Uncle Jim and who knows maybe for Davey as he grows up.
Robert Taylor incorporates into his writing a massive amount of well documented history of the period following the Great War. In particular, his description of Florida, its people and the harsh world of the Seminole Indians hasn’t been so well told.
The world of magic elixirs as practiced by those who called themselves Doctors plays an important role in the development of medicine and its use and abuse in this country. Taylor certainly understands this well.
Few books have as extensive a bibliography as this one written for the reader’s enjoyment but nevertheless providing ample documentation supporting the events. It ranks with Douglass’ Everglades – River of Grass, Rawlings’s Cross Creek and Matschat’s Suwannee River – Strange Green Land in telling the story of Florida’s development.
Robert Taylor, Voyage to Matecumbe, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1961.
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