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The Song of Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
216 pages with additional advertising pages. Cover is green cloth with gilt scroll designs and titles which are faded plus two panels of delicate floral designs. Spine has wear at bottom. Inside of fly page has a note re Christmas 1904 plus another owner's name on next page. Inside pages are in very good condition with no foxing but a few pages with small water stain at top. 4 1/4 x 6 1/4. Weight 9.5 oz
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
- Bookseller
- Nastasi & Associates
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- an1974
- Title
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Author
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Not stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- Not Stated
- Keywords
- poetry, classic poetry, indian poetry
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London, Ontario
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