Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - Brossura

Alther, Lisa

 
9781611451764: Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree
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ISBN 10: 1611451760 ISBN 13: 9781611451764
Casa editrice: Arcade, 2012

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Most of us grow up knowing who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther’s mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia. One day a babysitter told Lisa about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in caves. Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of her own, Lisa learned they were actually an isolated group of dark-skinned people—often with extra thumbs—living in East Tennessee. But who were they? Descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony? Kin of shipwrecked Portuguese or Turkish sailors? Or were they the children of frontiersman, or displaced Native Americans? Part sidesplitting travelogue, part how (and how not) to climb your family tree, Alther’s Kinfolks casts light on a little-known part of America’s contentious racial history; it shimmers with wicked humor, dazzles with wit, and demonstrates just how wacky and wonderful our human family truly is.

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Editore
Arcade
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1611451760
ISBN 13 
9781611451764
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
288
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9781559708326: Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree, the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1559708328 ISBN 13:  9781559708326
Casa editrice: Arcade Pub, 2007
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