With the coming of the Conquistadors within the sixteenth century, 10000 years of Indian civilization in Florida was once burnt up inside a iteration. years later, one other pandemic plague—this time intentionally published via a bunch of terrorists—has decimated the world's inhabitants, and just one in 1000 has controlled to survive.
In Boca Chita, ebook I of the NOEL trilogy, Mark, a sixty-two 12 months outdated curmudgeon, manages to flee infection with the lethal NOEL virus and makes use of his survival talents to home a abandoned island in Biscayne Bay south of Miami. 365 days later, after a chain of devastating ordinary mess ups, Mark has met up with document Olga, and besides 8 different NOEL survivors, has based the colony of latest Islandia in Islamorada, Florida.
Calusa Coast, the second one ebook within the trilogy, files the starting to be pains of the 1st yr of the fledgling colony, a utopian neighborhood the place funds and genuine property possession is outlawed. because of Mark’s efforts, electrical energy, water, and creature comforts were restored in New Islandia, and the group actively starts off to search out different survivors to keep growing. made up our minds to benefit from historical past, the gang attracts upon the knowledge of Florida’s historical Calusa civilization whereas embracing complicated glossy know-how, in the meantime attempting to steer clear of the error made by way of past schemers and scammers in Florida’s development.
Among different suffering survivors who stumble upon the hot neighborhood are Carla, an aged mystic who claims to be the final full-blooded Calusa, Skyler, a half-breed Seminole Indian, who has rescued a deaf lady and her younger son from the Everglades and a bunch of ten Cuban-Calusas who've left Cuba in selfmade dugout canoes, heading for the Calusa Coast, domestic in their extinct ancestors.
An August storm sweeps prior New Islandia and the gang makes the tricky selection to relocate the now-thriving group to the St. Augustine region, the positioning of the oldest urban in the United States. only a 12 months after founding New Islandia within the Keys, the hot group, rechristened First Coast, has grown to greater than a hundred. In First Coast, e-book III of the NOEL trilogy, the hot cost grows into FlorEden, a community of interdependent Florida groups, following the unique settlers and their descendents as they try to rebuild a devastated global.
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Author Lance lengthy is familiar with how mechanical issues paintings and will repair virtually whatever. With a Ph.D. in English, he taught on the collage point and the service provider Marine Academy, yet left academia, changing into a certified common contractor, genuine property and personal loan dealer, and land developer.
Following the genuine property cave in within the mark downs & personal loan drawback of 1989, he wrote the insider disclosure ebook, Banking on luck, which grew right into a tv infomercial and greater than 3,000 overseas seminars and workshops.
Lance has written reports on replacement fuels, solar power, aquaculture, electrical autos, and wastewater bio-mitigation, and as a public speaker, has promoted federal govt courses opposed to bioterrorism in Canada and Mexico.
After September 11 he begun fitting-out out a wide live-aboard diesel trawler. good versed in survival concepts, having cruised the area, he can navigate wherever and dwell off sea and land.
He lives aboard, cruising the Florida coast, and is presently engaged on First Coast, ebook 3 of his NOEL trilogy.