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In the Land of Good Living : A Journey to the Heart of Florida by Kent Russell is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate." In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: "America Concentrate") seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul. The journey, with two friends intent on filming the ensuing mayhem, quickly reduces the trio to filthy drifters pushing a shopping cart of camera equipment. They get waylaid by a concerned citizen bearing a rifle; buy cocaine from an ex-wrestler; visit a spiritual medium; attend a cuckold party. The narrative overflows with historical detail about how modern Florida came into being after World War II, and how it came to be a petri dish for life in a suddenly, increasingly diverse new land of minority-majority cities and of unrivaled ethnic and religious variety. Russell has taken it all in with his incomparably focused lens and delivered a

Who reads In the Land of Good Living : A Journey to the Heart of Florida?

Author

Kent Russell

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525521389

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Travel, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (173 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14