Author: Debra Gwartney
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826360718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place.
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
Author: Debra Gwartney
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826360718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826360718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767931181
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767931181
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Author: Ev Miller
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583424650
Category : Domestic drama, American
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583424650
Category : Domestic drama, American
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Author: Alden Nowlan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
See a sleek shark in its element. Durable and a great value, this extra-thick 100-piece cardboard jigsaw puzzle is a "splash" to assemble Bright, sturdy pieces will withstand many uses. Made in the USA. Dimensions: 14"L x 19"W
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
See a sleek shark in its element. Durable and a great value, this extra-thick 100-piece cardboard jigsaw puzzle is a "splash" to assemble Bright, sturdy pieces will withstand many uses. Made in the USA. Dimensions: 14"L x 19"W
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112118410742 and Others
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan
Author: Michigan Horticultural Society
Publisher:
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Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan
Author: Michigan State Horticultural Society
Publisher:
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Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Publisher:
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Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Report of the Secretary of the Michigan State Pomological Society
Author: Michigan State Horticultural Society
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Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Little Barefoot
Author: Augustus Waldauer
Publisher:
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Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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