The golden fleece

Description:

The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down the ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veranda marked eighty-seven degrees of heat, and nature wooed the soul to languor and revery; but nothing could abate the energy of this bony sage.

subjects: Classic Literature,  Fiction,  Social life and customs,  United States in fiction,  Fiction, general,  Discovery and exploration,  History,  Description and travel,  Carib Indians,  Découverte et exploration,  Histoire,  Descriptions et voyages,  Caraïbes (Peuple autochtone),  Discoveries in geography,  Travel

Places: United States

Times: 19th century