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    Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica

    Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica

    Max Overton
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    Publisher Description

    An eleven-year-old boy is plucked from boarding school in England and transported to the tropical paradise of Jamaica where he's free to study his one great love--butterflies. He discovers that Jamaica has a wealth of these wonderful insects and sets about making a collection of as many as he can find. Along the way, he has adventures with other creatures, from hummingbirds to vultures, from iguanas to black widow spiders. Through it all runs the promise of the legendary Homerus swallowtail, Jamaica's national butterfly.


    Other activities intrude, like school, boxing and swimming lessons, but he manages to inveigle his parents into taking him to strange and sometimes dangerous places, all in the name of butterfly collecting. He meets scientists and Rastafarians, teachers, small boys and the ordinary people living on the tropical isle, and even discovers butterflies that shouldn't exist in Jamaica.


    Author Max Overton was that young boy. He counted himself fortunate to have lived in Jamaica in an age very different from the present one. Max still has some of the butterflies he collected half a century or more ago, and each one releases a flood of memories whenever he opens the box and gazes at their tattered and fading wings. These memories have become stories--stories of the Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica.

    GENRE
    Biographies & Memoirs
    RELEASED
    2023
    January 14
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    371
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    Writers Exchange E-Publishing
    SELLER
    Draft2Digital, LLC
    SIZE
    6.9
    MB

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