Condition: excellent. From the Preface, written in 1880: Visiting for the first time “the home of summer and the sun,“ the author was constantly surprise and charmed with new phases of what wonders beauty, which ever, in the vicinity of the tropics, rest like an atmosphere upon sea and land. His nerves were soothed and quieted buy a climate which the gulf stream and tradewinds, delightfully tempered and medicated. Lulled, soothed and pleased by such novel surroundings, it was a relief to the mind to give expression to its agreeable sensations, and shed some of its thoughts. To gratify and amuse his friends at home, many of his impressions and pen pictures were forwarded for a publication in the New Haven Journal and Courier. They met with an expected favor, and if his vanity had not, as he trusts, departed with his youth, he would’ve been proud, as he certainly was gratified at the warm, hearty and general commendation with which his published letters were received. Much enlarged, and to some extent rewritten, they are now issued in book form at the request, frequently and urgently expressed, of many of the readers of his newspaper communications. The author has more readily yielded to these requests, because he believes his book will meet in and supplied want, there, being no work in the market, which gives the information it contains. A literary tent has only at long intervals, been pitched for a few days upon the Bahamas, and the coral isles have yielded to letters very meager with through the valuable harvest. Enjoying to some extent the fruits in the labors of others, the author has also cropped new fields, and while he has not exhausted or very much impaired the fertility of the soil, he trust his book, will not only minister to the pleasure, but be of some practical value to those of his fellow citizens, who, for any reason, desire to avoid the severity of the weather at the north during the winter and early spring months. It is but a chance seedling, but valuable fruit is sometimes found upon trees by the wayside and in hedge-rows, which no professional pomologist has planted. It’s in the fruit gardens of literature “The Isles of Summer” shall take root and flourish in the warm son of popular favor, it’s author will be gratified… Some of the wood cut illustrations in this book being those which, in the table of illustrations are numbered, respectively, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13 and 14, are by permission of C. H. Mallory and Company of New York, the proprietors of the steamship line, now running between New York, Nassau and Matanzas, copied from an illustrated pamphlet, which they have printed for the benefit of the patrons of their line. The other wooden cravings have been made for this work, or with no exceptions from photograph Was taken in Nassau by Mr. J. F. Currently of New York. The little graphic plates are from joins made by Mr. J. H. Emerton of New Haven, and are mostly from specimens which the author’s wife collected in the Bahamas. The author takes pleasuring acknowledging his indebtedness to Professor. A. E. Verrill , of the Sheffield scientific school, for valuable suggestions, and for the scientific names of the specimens in natural history pictured upon the little graphic plates.#hardcover#hardcover#bahamas#history#travel#geography#biodiversity#biology

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