Story of Martha's Vineyard

G. Hine C.

Description

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Professor Shaler wrote in 1874: Of those who travel, by far the larger part are driven about the world by a hunger for the curious. The evil demon that pursues them hides th beauty of things near at hand with a veil of the commonplace, and sets on the horizon beacons that seem to point to fresher fields beyond. Martha's Vineyard gives a rich soil, beautiful drives, brooks and woods, features denied to its bleaker sister to the east. The Vineyard has never had its story told in a form that could be readily reached. For more than one hundred years travelers and scientists have devoted a chapter or more to the island and newspapers have paragraphed it, but that is prae tically all. This book is an attempt to attach its stories - historical, personal and legendary - to the particular spots to which they belong and to string them on a thread of description that will carry one the length of the island, in the hope that that hunger for the curious may be temporarily sated.

Sujets

• Adventure
• Adventure (Guyana)

Informations

• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243660360
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

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