To a God Unknown: (Annotated Edition)
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798740014333
- Series
- To a God Unknown
- Pages
- 122
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-18
- Author
- John John Steinbeck
Description
Receiving his father's blessing to take leave of the family farm in Vermont, Joseph Wayne heads to California to begin a life of homesteading. He arrives in California in the spring of 1904. It is within a valley between the Salinas and the Pacific known as Nuestra Senora that Joseph Wayne sets to work on a detailed record of his adventures in homesteading.Two weeks after his arrival, the lumber arrives. In response to the delay, Joseph is told of earlier times in the 1880s when there was a dry season that seems to indicate the wisdom of preparing for regular onsets of drought. Meanwhile, work continues on building the home and eventually the frame is completed. Not long after comes word that Joseph's beloved father has passed away, instilling in Joseph the belief that the spirit of his father has become one with a truly spectacular oak tree.
