Totch: A Life in the Everglades
by Loren G. Brown. Paperback 279 pgs, University Press of Florida, 1993.

Totch Brown's memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades--the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest road-less wilderness in the United States--are invaluable as well as vivid and entertaining for Totch is a natural-born story-teller, and his accounts of fishing and gator hunting as well as his life beyond the law as gator poacher and drug runner are evocative and colorful, fresh and exciting.--from the foreword by Peter Matthiessen