The setting is the wild and remote Catskill Mountain High Peaks region known today as Platte Clove. The years are 1899-1903. At once a fascinating window on manners and mores in rural America a century ago, and an important work...

"A fascinating and important book."---Sir Martin Gilbert" "An inside look at an inside look at the last decades of Jewish daily life in Baghdad, Memories of Eden records the forgotten details and preserves the sights and smells, joys and anxieties,...

This first scholarly edition of the writings of a unique Native American woman details an extraordinary life in a combination of genres including oral history, ethnography, and western adventure sketches. Narcissa Owen was of mixed Cherokee and Scots-Irish descent...

"The best biography ever about Ed. Cahalan s meticulous research and thoughtful interviews have made this book the authoritative source for Abbey scholars and fans alike." Doug Peacock, author, environmentalist activist and explorer, and the inspiration for Hayduke in The...

This is the compelling yet disturbing story of Corbett Mack (1892–1974), an opiate addict who was a member of the Nuumuu (Numa), or Northern Paiute. The Northern Paiute are best known as the people who produced Wovoka, the Ghost Dance...

This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux;...

Meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics. Publishers Weekly Shrinking Walden into picture book size is somewhat like trying to fit Moby Dick into an aquarium. Still, Lowe's selections from Thoreau's iconoclastic work will give children a...

Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants....

Set in the 1940s, Elaine Soloway s memoir takes its title from the street that Studs Terkel exalts in his classic book, Division Street: America, and from the pet name her father gave her. Soloway lived in a three-room flat...

Letters from the Country, one of Bly's best-known and best-loved books, is a collection of essays as fresh today as when they were originally published in Minnesota Monthly. This contemporary classic welcomes readers to the small town of Madison, Minnesota...