The Story of Martha's Vineyard

ISBN: 9781330424247 出版年：2016 页码：239 C G Hine Forgotten Books

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.