Synopses & Reviews
For his fifteenth birthday in 1805, Noah Blake received a little leather-bound diary. This reprint of his actual journal offers modern readers a charming glimpse of a vanished era through the eyes of a nineteenth-century farm boy. Eric Sloanea distinguished historian, author, and artisthas expanded Noah Blake's daily entries with a fascinating explanatory narrative and 72 delightful drawings.
Hailed by Library Journal as "informative and nostalgic," this unique book features descriptions and drawings of such common chores as making nails, building a bridge, splitting shingles, spring plowing, and maple-sugaring, along with the construction of an entire backwoods farm. The result is a remarkable window onto the customs and preoccupations of rural New England two centuries ago.
Synopsis
Hailed by Library Journal as "informative and nostalgic," this unique book was based on a diary discovered in an old farmhouse. Now available in a handsome hardcover edition, it combines the original text with an explanatory narrative and 72 wondrous drawings, offering remarkable glimpses of rural New England life from 200 years ago.
Synopsis
Hailed by Library Journal as "informative and nostalgic," this unique book was based on a diary discovered in an old farmhouse. Now available in a handsome hardcover edition, it combines the original text with an explanatory narrative and 72 wondrous drawings, offering remarkable glimpses of rural New England life from 200 years ago.
Synopsis
A noted historian complements an authentic 19th-century journal of New England farm life with an explanatory narrative and 72 delightful drawings. This deluxe hardcover edition is a keepsake treasure.