The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot by Holman Day

Description

The Landloper — the romance of a man on foot — drops an unnamed hero onto the highways of Maine with a walking stick, a good coat, and a plan that runs only as far as the next town. He tramps through a state at work on itself: lumber camps and county seats, village politics and the people who run them. Warm, comic, and wholly of its place and time, the novel is a celebration of walking, talk, and young gallantry.

Holman Day was the great popular chronicler of Maine, and his prose carries the smell of pines and the bluff humour of the logging camp. The story’s romance grows naturally out of the road itself.

Why readers still come back to it

• A love letter to Maine and to travelling on foot, written by a native son.
• Local colour in depth: camps, characters, and backwoods conversation.
• A romance that earns its place without a drop of false sentiment.

About this DodaBooks edition

Set for easy, unpretentious reading: clean type, linked chapter navigation, and a simple contents page that works on any device. The road is entered the moment the file reaches your reader.