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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

by Erdrich, Louise

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NY : Harper Perennial. 2014. vg. Paperback. Signed by Author ISBN:9780062309969 SIGNED by author on title pg; Account of author's trip through lakes & islands of southern Ontarion with her baby & baby's father, an Ojibwe leader & guide;127 pages; b/w illustrations & map; text unmarked; light shelf wear to edges of cover .

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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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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors
Author
Erdrich, Louise
Illustrator
Louise Erdrich
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - vg
ISBN 10
006230996X
ISBN 13
9780062309969
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
2014
Keywords
Native American, Literary Crit, Signed, Travel/Explor., True Adv/Crime
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