THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINCHESTER, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
David Bogue, 1855. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Previous owners inscriptions: Yes. Small sticky label title page, and name date and address inside front cover. Book Condition: Good. Some browning to pages and webbing showing, leather is scuffed. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: 1855. Edition: 6th. Pages: 176. Description: The Song of Hiawatha is an epic poem, featuring an Indian hero and loosely based on legends and ethnography of the Ojibwe and other Native American peoples. In sentiment, scope, overall conception, and many particulars, the poem is very much a work of American Romantic literature.
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
- Hawkmoor Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001852
- Title
- THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
- Author
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- David Bogue
- Date Published
- 1855
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