Sun Hunting

Sun Hunting - Adventures and Observations Among the Native and Migratory Tribes of Florida, Including the Stoical Time-Killers of Palm Beach, the Gentle and Gregarious Tin-Canners of the Remote Interior, and the Vivacious and Semi-Violent Peoples of Miami and Its Purlieus

Adventures and Observations among the Native and Migratory Tribes of Florida, including the Stoical Time-Killers of Palm Beach, the Gentle and Gregarious Tin-Canners of the Remote Interior, and the Vivacious and Semi-Violent Peoples of Miami and Its Purlieus By Kenneth L. Roberts Author of Why Europe Leaves Home INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1922 By The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1922 By The Bobbs-Merrill Company Printed in the United States of America. PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. To Juan Ponce De Leon who found in 1513 That Florida wasnt all it was Cracked Up to be but who Liked it Well Enough to Go Back This Book is Appreciatively Dedicated This desire is not so much due to their wish to avoid making a mess around the house as it is to the peculiar mental obsession known to the French as homesickness for elsewhere. French society has been afflicted for years with a passionate desire to be somewhere that it isnt. A Parisian with time to kill aims to move up to the clear cold air of the mountains where he can kill{4} lots of it. When he gets to the mountains, it suddenly occurs to him that possibly he might find a little more time to kill at the seashore, where the eye may roam at will across the boundless and unobstructed waves. So he moves to the seashore and at once begins to suspect that in Paris one can find more weapons with which to cause time to die a lingering and horrible death. So he moves back to Paris, where he once more hunts restlessly for other means to kill time. He has the homesickness for elsewhere. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67896
Author: Roberts, Kenneth Lewis
Release Date: Apr 21, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publication Date: 1922
Publisher Country: United States