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Title: Journey to Matecumbe by Robert Lewis Taylor ISBN: 9-9974093-1-0 Publisher: McGraw Hill Text Pub. Date: June, 1961 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A sleeper that will keep you awake
Comment: A young man and his older brother get themselves cross-wise with the KKK during the years following the Civil War. This begins a long chase, an adventure to compare with Huck Finn, minus Mark Twain, that will keep you smiling and turning pages all the way down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, then to the Florida swamps. I think you'll love this one. Trust me.

Rating: 4
Summary: The Florida Keys, treasure and the Seminoles
Comment: Taylor's books are well-researched historical fiction. His plots are generally captivating, his characters, believable, funny and unusual. The comparisons by some reviewers to Huck Finn and his friends are probably valid on some level. Journey to Matecumbe begins on the Mississippi River, involves a raft trip downstream to escape the KKK, and includes a number of amusing, colorful characters involved in unlikely situations. It's worth the price of admission, if only for an interesting read.

However, readers who wish to get some historical knowledge with their enjoyment will find the obscure, post-Civil War era Florida Keys portions also to their liking. Taylor obliges the historical fiction reader by also taking some of the characters through Seminole villages, swamps, and a trek along the land route from the Florida panhandle to Miami. The descriptions of the earliest origins of the KKK might also be accurate.

I'd recommend this book as a better than average historical fiction to rest on the bookshelf for a later re-reading.

Rating: 3
Summary: Matecumbe
Comment: After seeing the Disney movie, I wanted to read the book.

The book was better than the well-scrubbed Diseny version, be warned, though, that it doesn't pull its punches as far as Klan violence is concerned.

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