title: In Search of the Russian Bear: An American Writer's Odyssey in the Former Soviet Union
author:  Patrick D. Smith 
description: Patrick Smith is the author of seven novels: The River Is Home, The Beginning, Forever Island, Angel City, Allapattah, A Land Remembered, and The Seas That Mourn, and a story collection, A White Deer and Other Stories. He is also co-author of the non-fiction book The Last Ride and author of the non-fiction book In Search of The Russian Bear. He is a 1999 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the highest and most prestigious cultural honor that can be bestowed upon an individual by the state of Florida. In May 2002 Smith was the recipient of the Florida Historical Societys Fay Schweim Award as the Greatest Living Floridian. The one-time-only award was established to honor the one individual who has contributed the most to Florida in recent history. Smith has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1973 for Forever Island, which was a 1974 selection of Readers Digest Condensed Books both in the English language edition and in all of the worldwide foreign language editions; in 1978 for Angel City, which was produced as a Movie of the Week for the CBS television network; and in 1984 for A Land Remembered, which was an Editors Choice selection of the New York Times Book Review. Smiths lifetime work was nominated for the 1985 Nobel Prize for Literature. Previous honors include: Tebeau Prize for A Land Remembered as the Most Outstanding Historical Novel, Florida Historical Society, 1986; Outstanding Author Award, Council for Florida Libraries, 1986; Communications Achievement Award, Toastmasters International, 1987; Environmental Writers Award, Florida Audubon Society, 1987; FLORIDA TODAY Best Writer Award, 1987, 1990, 1992; Medal of Honor, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1988; Order of the South Award, Southern Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 1996; Florida Ambassador of the Arts Award, Florida Department of State, 1996; the first Florida Cracker Heritage Award, presented for outstanding contribution to Florida Cracker pioneer heritage, Florida Cracker Trail Association, 1997; Florida Literary Legend Award, Florida Heritage Book Festival, St. Augustine, 2008. In 1997, the Florida Historical Society created a new annual award, the Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Award, in his honor. In June 2013, Smith was selected as one of the GreatFloridians. Governor Rick Scott and his wife personally came to his home to give him this award.
  						    	
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  Author’s Note
  Prologue
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Chapter Fifteen
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