"Gerard M. Hunt is a man without a country, trying to piece
together in essays, editorials and scholarship a country of his own
from three quite separate nations: French Colonial by birth and
upbringing; United States by military service and higher education;
and Canada by profession in teaching and scholarship. The three
have by no means come together in a single national unity. His
homing tendency seems to be towards St. Martin, but St. Martin is
itself an amalgam - a clump of volcanic earth still divided, for no
good reason, between two independent sovereigns thousands of miles
away. He is a unitary citizen without an integrated polity. (...)
Many of Gerard's essays are grave and penetrating trials. Many are
sentimental - catching up with childhood comrades, sharing grief
over a lost friend or relative. Several of these discourses are
critiques of the wayward tendencies of French efforts to govern
Saint-Martin from Paris through Guadeloupe. The most serious and
extensive of essays aim at encouraging a greater sense of
historical awareness and of community solidarity among St.
Martiners ..." From "Foreword to Rambling on Saint Martin" by
Theodore J. Lowi
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