Author: RODDAN, REV. ANDREW
Title: God in the Jungles - the Story of the Man without a Home
Description: Vancouver, B.C.: First United Church, 1931. First Edition. Paperback. 65 pages. Includes fourteen black and white photos. Undated. Circa 1931. Author was Reverend of First United Church in Vancouver, B.C, "The Church with the Open Door" which "Ministers to 27 different nationalities, irrespective of race, color, class, or creed". - from title page. "... A story of human interest dealing with flesh and blood, telling you in a simple and direct manner something of the struggle for an existence on the part of thousands of homeless men in this great Canada of ours." - from page 9. Contents include topics such as: The Slave Market; The Tramp; The Juvenile Hobo; Why Men Fail; The Hobo and the Climate; Enforced Idleness; The Hobo and Alcohol; The Sex Life of the Hobo; How the Hobo Travels; Insanity; The Hobo and the Communist; and many more. Above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Short piece of grey tape atop spine. A worthy vintage copy which takes readers deep inside the lives of Canada's multitude of impoverished men during the Great Depression.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; God in the Jungles - The Story of the Man Without a Home Hobos Great Depression Poverty Homelessness. Fair .

Keywords: Religion British Columbia Canadian History