Waiting for Agnes; Inspired by the True Story of Coral Castle. A Novel.
Paris, Honduras, Argentina [ Kearney NE ]: Privately published [ Morris Publishing ], 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. ii + 344pp, b&w illustrations. Apparently tells in fictionalised form, the bizarre story of Ed Leedskalnin and the extraordinary and mysterious "Coral Castle" he built in Miami. From the publisher: "Coral Castle sits on Key West Highway in Homestead, Florida. It was built by a Latvian immigrant with a fourth grade education named Ed Leedskalnin. Jilted on the eve of his wedding in 1912 to Agnes Scuffs, the only girl he ever loved, Ed was crushed by her rejection and he came to south Florida after traveling around Canada, Texas and California. Ed went to a junkyard and fashioned his own tools from discarded automobile parts. Ed only worked from midnight to sunrise so no one ever could see how he cut and moved huge blocks of jagged coral (Ed's largest stone weighed 30 tons) and formed them into today's Coral Castle.
This book describes in detail why Ed left his home in Latvia (one of the Baltic States near Russia) came to Florida and built Coral Castle at the edge of the Florida Everglades. It also explores a popular theory of how Ed might have cut and moved stones heavier than those of the Great Pyramid. The true secret of this lost science can never be known." Illustrated with photographs of the Coral Castle, Ed Leedskalnin, etc. Just a hint of shelf rubbing and bump & light creasing to upper spine and upper corner - else appears unread, thus a tight unmarked VG+ copy. Item #69233
ISBN: 9780967313306
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