Tim Robinson

Best Fiction, Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award, 2021. Rating: PG-13] The Sixteenth novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series, The Outpost is, in addition, the First novel in the "Outpost" sub-series. Born in one world, then violently removed from it to be raised in another, young Haley Addison never suspected the truth, that her entire life, everything in it, had been built on lies. But then, as they say, Ignorance is Bliss.

Here is Connemara, experienced at a walker's pace. From cartographer Tim Robinson comes the second title in the Seedbank series, a breathtakingly intimate exploration of one beloved place's geography, ecology, and history. We begin with the earth right in front of his boots, as Robinson unveils swaths of fiontarnach--fall leaf decay. We peer from the edge of the cliff where Robinson's house stands on rickety stilts. We closely examine an overgrown patch of heather, a flush of sphagnum moss. And so, footstep by footstep, moment by moment, Robinson takes readers deep into this storied Irish landscape, from the "quibbling, contentious terrain" of Bogland to the shorelines of Inis Ni to the towering peaks of Twelve Pins. Just as wild and essential as the countryside itself are its colorful characters, friends and legends and neighbors alike: a skeletal, story-filled sheep farmer; an engineer who builds bridges, both physical and metaphorical; a playboy prince and cricket champion; and an enterprising botanist who meets an unexpected demise. Within a landscape lie all other things, and Robinson rejoices in the universal magic of becoming one with such a place, joining with "[t]he sound of the past, the language we breathe, and our frontage onto the natural world." Situated at the intersection of mapmaking and mythmaking, Listening to the Wind is at once learned and intimate, elegiac and magnificent--an exceptionally rich "book about one place which is also about the whole world" (Robert Macfarlane).

Rating: PG-13] "The Brigand" is the Fifteenth novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series.The lives of three young friends are disrupted when one of them, Arabelle O'Shea, is abducted by the "Scourge of the Florida Straits," the feared and dreaded pirate, El Diablo Caesar. Will Paco Pi ato and Caleb Johnson rescue Arabelle in time? And what of the legendary treasure of Black Caesar, the notorious compatriot of Blackbeard himself? Will it be discovered these many years later? And if so, by whom? Or will it reside in its place of concealment forever?

A darkness spreads through the kingdom of Drakorna, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Aven Aldere travels the kingdom with nothing but his best friend Donovan Tricon and the sword of his father who abandoned him and his mother to die. In their travels they find little more than trouble in taverns and cold nights by fires in the forest. Their carefree lives end when a mysterious man begins raising an army with powerful magic and the two must fight to survive. They must fight to save the entire kingdom from being swallowed by the darkness with glowing eyes and a devils grin.

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.

Rating: R, for language; Note: a "Clean Language" edition is available, ISBN: 979-8468990346] 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?

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.

Rating: PG-13] A bitter old man, a resentful son who never knew his father, and a daughter-in-law who is intent on fixing everything. What could possibly go wrong? Set along the banks of a winding, jungle river, this is a story of reflection, regret, and the power of bullheadedness.

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.In war people die, and they kill. 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.

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.

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 "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?

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.

The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. Robinson writes about the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the encyclopaedic knowledge of a cartographer and the grace of a born writer. From the man who has been praised in the highest terms by Joseph O'Connor ('One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists''), John Burnside ('one of the finest of contemporary prose stylists'), Fintan O'Toole ('Simply one of the best non-fiction prose writers currently at work') and Giles Foden ('an indubitable classic'), among many others, this is one of the publishing events of 2011 and the conclusion of one of the great literary projects of our time.'One of the greatest writers of lands ... No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan O'Toole'He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.' John Banville, Guardian'The Proust & Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, and human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work' Robert Macfarlane'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past ... This perfectly pitched work opens readers up to the world around them' Sunday Times 'Will endure into the far future ... He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility' Colm Toibin, Sunday Business Post Books of the Year 'Anyone willing to get lost in this book will be left with indelible mental images of places they may never have visited but will now never forget' Dermot Bolger, Irish Mail on Sunday