Genre: Essays & Criticism
Paperback: 131 pages

Description: 5"x"8"; Arial 10; softcover book

Synopsis:

A Florida Sketch-Book. Original publication: 1894. "IN approaching Jacksonville by rail, the traveler rides hour after hour through seemingly endless pine barrens, otherwise known as low pine-woods and flat-woods, till he wearies of the sight. It would be hard, he thinks, to imagine a region more unwholesome looking and uninteresting, more poverty-stricken and God-forsaken, in its entire aspect. Surely, men who would risk life in behalf of such a country deserved to win their cause. Monotonous as the flat-woods were, however, and malarious as they looked, arid wastes and stretches of stagnant water flying past the car window in perpetual alternation, I was impatient to get into then. They were a world the like of which I had never seen; and wherever I went in eastern Florida, I made it one of my earliest concerns to seek them out." -- Bradford Torrey

Product Details:

· Paperback: 131 pages
· Binding: Perfect
· Publisher: Kellscraft Studio (July 2006)
· Product Number: 030-65212512