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Homosteading at the 19th Parallel - One Man's Adventures Building His Nightmare Dream House on the Big Island of Hawaii (Paperback)
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Homosteading at the 19th Parallel - One Man's Adventures Building His Nightmare Dream House on the Big Island of Hawaii (Paperback)
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List price R469
Loot Price R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
You Save R31 (7%)
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A man from Arizona buys a piece of land in the middle of a lava
field while vacationing in Hawaii and returns to the island to find
a deeper sense of home and build his midlife crisis tropical dream
house. In this assemblage of journal entries during the trying year
of construction, the author tells some of the secrets of rural
Hawaii, revealing her dark underbelly. Meet the crazy neighbors in
Puna's "open-air asylum," go on late night lava walks, join a lynch
mob against the coqui frogs, and find the true meaning of 'aloha'
in the jungle. "What do you do when you've run away from
home-again-and you still want to keep running? This is a story of a
relationship, not with just a house, but with a vision of home. I
could have read twice as long a book with as much excitement-it was
heartbreaking and hilarious to watch Gilmore's poignant love affair
disintegrate. As a reader, I was rooting for the love affair to
last, and I was stubbornly optimistic when it didn't . but finally,
he realizes one night, while holding his dog and swinging in the
hammock, that he has built a perfect home in paradise-for someone
else." -Gillian Kendall, author of "Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet" ." I
laughed myself silly and my mouth dropped open in amazement. The
man is a true original." -David Henry Sterry, author of "Chicken,
Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent"
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