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A Trip To Florida For Health And Sport
Cyrus Parkhust Condit

A Trip To Florida For Health And Sport

The lost 1855 novel of Cyrus Parkhurst Condit

2009
9781886104365
| Paperback
USA | en_US
Dewey F CON

Genre

  • Fiction
  • Florida History

Subject

  • Florida - Travel

Plot

"This novel is strong on action and description. Reading it is like watching a kaleidoscope of places and things. It provides a trip back to the 1850's Florida, a time when things were so different from today. It is an interesting journey. More than eighty years before Majorie Kinman Rawlings published The Yearling, Cyrus Parkhurst Condit wrote this coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy in Florida who learns to hunt, builds a fence, and takes a fawn as a pet. Undiscovered and unpublished until now, this engaging story is historically significant as one of the first Florida novels ever written. Fascinating historical and literary context is provided by the editors.