A war-torn World War I soldier hears the doctors give up hope for his recovery.
With its rich nature lore, this gripping novel is a story the whole family will enjoy reading..
Lavishly illustrated with all of the first edition drawings by Lee Thayer and all of the paintings by Gordon Grant.
Shortly after his strange marriage ceremony to a woman he met the previous evening, and to whom he had only spoken a few sentences, she hastily departs without a word of farewell.
Within a few days he finds a home, becomes a beeKeeper in a lush California valley, and hurriedly becomes a bridegroom.
So one day he slips out of the government hospital, and tottering toward the sea, he starts out weak and penniless on his Great Adventure.
He has a feeling that if he could live by the sea, get plenty of fresh air, exercise and sunshine, that he would begin to heal.
A war-torn World War I soldier hears the doctors give up hope for his recovery