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London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fleischmann, Glen. WHILE RIVERS FLOW. An Historical Novel. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1963. Publisher's red cloth stamped gilt to the spine. A fine fresh copy in like price clipped John Lathey designed dustwrapper, a hint of fade to the spine panel, hardly noticable. An excellent example of this novel of the expulsion of the Cherokee Nation. "In the 1830s America was a small country crushed against her eastern seaboard, but already the land-hungry South was pressing westward and the Cherokee Nation - a settled, civilised, prosperous people whose territory was secured to them by treaty - was in the way. The people of Georgia clamoured for a new treaty which compelled the Cherokees to remove west of the Mississippi. Against this historical background - one of the bitterest stains on the history of the United States - Glen Fleischmann has written a powerful and dramatic novel: the story of… Read More