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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (National Geographic Directions)
by Louise Erdrich
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0792257197
- ISBN 13
- 9780792257196
- Seller
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Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A.: National Geographic, 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. light wear very clean copy-----------sacred stories and rock paintings. the legancy of Ojbwe.
Synopsis
For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling that give her work its magical, elemental force. In a small boat like those her Native American ancestors have used for countless generations, she travels to Ojibwe home ground, the islands of Lake of the Woods in southern Ontario. Her only companions are her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader, on a pilgrimage to the sacred rock paintings their people have venerated for centuries as mystical "teaching and dream guides," and where even today Ojibwe leave offerings of tobacco in token of their power. With these paintings as backdrop, Erdrich summons to life the Ojibwe's spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, and the tales that are in their blood, echoing through her own family's very contemporary American lives and shaping her vision of the wider world. Thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully well observed, her meditation evokes ancient wisdom, modern ways, and the universal human concerns we all share. "This book is a treasure and a delight."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Details
- Bookseller
- Redbrick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011227
- Title
- Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (National Geographic Directions)
- Author
- Louise Erdrich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0792257197
- ISBN 13
- 9780792257196
- Publisher
- National Geographic
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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