Pennsylvania Mountain Stories (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
136
Utgivningsdatum
2006-01-01
Förlag
Metalmark Books
Illustrationer
5 Halftones, black and white
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 8 mm
Vikt
209 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780271027524

Pennsylvania Mountain Stories

av Henry W Shoemaker
Häftad,  Engelska, 2006-01-01
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Henry W. Shoemaker (18801958) was known for his deep love for the wilderness and native cultures of Pennsylvania. The states first official folklorist, he wrote more than twenty books detailing Pennsylvanias modern mythology. Pennsylvania Mountain Stories is perhaps Shoemakers definitive collection of folktales. The idea for this book came to Shoemaker during his college years, when he spent his vacations traveling through the mountains of Pennsylvaniaon foot, on horseback, or by buggy. He claimed that he heard the stories, mostly after supper, from people he met at lumber camps, farmhouses, and backwoods taverns. As so many of the tales are devoted to subjects of a more or less supernatural order they cannot very well be true, he writes, but then hastens to add, neither are they of the authors invention. In this ethereal space between fact and fiction, Pennsylvania Mountain Stories reveals the values, the passions, the obsessions of the people who told them. This volume, published under the Metalmark Books imprint, contains a facsimile reproduction of the 1911 edition, originally published by the Reading Times Publishing Company.
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Henry W. Shoemaker (18801958) was the author of more than twenty volumes of popular Pennsylvania literary folklore and numerous narratives about Pennsylvanias disappearing wildlife during the first half of the twentieth century. He also served as Pennsylvanias first state folklorist from 1948 to 1956.

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