The Trees: First Book In Awakening Land Trilogy

Richter, Conrad

ISBN 10: 0821409786 / ISBN 13: 9780821409787

Editore: Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, Usa, 1991

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In Very Good Condition. Very Clean Interior, No Notes, Names or Markings. No Torn Or Folded Pages. With Very Minor Wear to Covers Corners, Edges and/or Spine. For More Information On Condition. Please View All Images The Awakening Land Trilogy Traces The Transformation Of A Middle-American Landscape From Wilderness To Farmland To The Site Of Modern Industrial Civilization, All In The Lifetime Of One Character. The Trilogy Earned Author Conrad Richter Immense Acclaim, Ranking Him With The Greatest Of American Mid-Century Novelists. It Includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), And The Town (1950) And Follows The Varied Fortunes Of Sayward Luckett And Her Family In Southeastern Ohio. The Trees Is The Story Of An American Family In The Wilderness--A Family That "Followed The Woods As Some Families Follow The Sea." The Time Is The End Of The Eighteenth Century, The Wilderness Is The Land West Of The Alleghenies And North Of The Ohio River. But Principally, The Trees Is The Story Of A Girl Named Sayward, Eldest Daughter Of Worth And Jary Luckett, Raised In The Forest Far From The Rest Of Humankind, Yet Growing To Realize That The Way Of The Hunter Must Cede To The Way Of The Tiller Of Soil.

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• Titolo: The Trees: First Book In Awakening Land Trilogy
• Editore: Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, Usa
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0821409786
• ISBN 13: 9780821409787
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 400 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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Riassunto

The Trees is a moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter s Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation.This novel gives an excellent feel for America's lost woods culture, which was created when most of the eastern midwest was a vast hardwood forest---virtually a jungle. The Trees conveys settler life, including conflicts with Native Americans, illness, hunting, family dynamics, and marriage.

Informazioni sull?autore

Conrad Richter was born in Pennsylvania. His family on his mother’s side was identified with the early American scene, and from boyhood on he was saturated with tales and the color of Eastern pioneer days. In 1928 he and his family moved to New Mexico, where his heart and mind were soon captured by the Southwest. The Sea of Grass and The Trees were awarded the gold medal of the Societies of Libraries of New York University in 1942.