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Item Details
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A COMPANION FOR OWLS
BEING THE COMMONPLACE BOOK OF D. BOONE, LONG HUNTER, BACK WOODSMAN, ETC |
| By: |
Maurice Manning |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£16.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0151010498 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780151010493 |
| Publisher: |
HARCOURT BRACE INTERNATIONAL |
| Pub. date: |
6 September, 2004 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
A collection of narrative poems by an award-winning writer is written in the voice of Daniel Boone and follows themes that evince the beauty and struggle of nascent America, tracing the frontiersman's witness to the nation's birth, observations of the natural world, loss of family, and friendship wi |
| Synopsis: |
This collection of highly original narrative poems is written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone and captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war and in the wilderness, and see the birth of a new nation. We track the bountiful animals and the great, undisturbed rivers. We stand beside Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in his friendship with a slave named Derry. Praised for his originality, Maurice Manning is an exciting new voice in American poetry. The darkest place I've ever been did not require a name. It seemed to be a gathering place for the lint of the world. The bottom of a hollow beneath two ridges, sunk like a stone. The water was surely old, the dregs of some ancient sea, but purified by time, like a man made better by his years, his old hurts absorbed into his soul, his losses like a spring in his breast. -from "Born Again" |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harcourt Brace International |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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