Name: Alex Stewart: Portrait of a Pioneer (en Inglés)
SKU: 1530238
Price: 308.72 MXN
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Author: John Rice Irwin
ISBN: 9780887400537

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Alex Stewart: Portrait of a Pioneer (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Schiffer Craft

Autor

John Rice Irwin

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

298

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.4x1.9 cm

Peso

ISBN

0887400531

ISBN13

9780887400537

Alex Stewart: Portrait of a Pioneer (en Inglés)

John Rice Irwin (Autor) · Schiffer Craft · Tapa Blanda

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Alex Stewart was a recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1983 by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington which recognized him as a living national treasure. Over a twenty year period of friendship the author developed a profound respect and great love for Alex Stewart, a truly remarkable Tennessee mountain character whose life epitomizes the pioneer development in America. The best of hundreds of hours of recorded conversations with Stewart are compiled into a moving portrait of this cooper, father of 13, farmer, logger, railroad man, and do-it-yourself interpreter of his rugged homeland.

Because the ways Stewart tells his own stories are as important as the stories themselves, he is allowed to do most of the "talking" throughout the book. Through his own account of the people around him, Alex describes his rural life in the late 19th and 20th centuries through stories such as when he was bit by a rabid dog, when neighbor children begged for food, or how people gathered honey, made marbles, moonshine or furniture. Throughout his 94 years, Alex, who died in 1985, depended upon his own good sense to direct him and it led him through a rich and fascinating life. This book is a genuine labor of love.