Hiawatha
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD- Reading Copy/Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0803700148
- ISBN 13
- 9780803700147
- Seller
-
OCEANSIDE, California, United States
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Synopsis
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
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Details
- Seller
- J. E. MILES, A BOOKSELLER (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 56758
- Title
- Hiawatha
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Illustrator
- Jeffers, Susan (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD- Reading Copy/Good-
- Edition
- Ex-library/stated first Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0803700148
- ISBN 13
- 9780803700147
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- INDIANS, NORTH, AMERICA, POETRY, POETIC, WORKS, AUTHOR, JUVENILE, NONFICTION, GENERAL
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- First Edition
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