Description: For his fifteenth birthday in 1805, young Noah Blake's parents gave him a little leatherbound diary in which he recorded the various activities on his father's farm. This reprint of an actual early nineteenth-century book provides today's readers with a delightful rarity — a view of bygone days through the eyes of a young boy. Eric Sloane has taken the notebook with its brief comments and expanded the daily entries with explanatory narrative and 72 of his own remarkable drawings. Verbal and graphic sketches detail the construction of an entire backwoods farm as well as such common tasks as making nails, building a bridge, splitting shingles, spring plowing, and maple-sugaring. The result is "an extraordinary glimpse into everyday Early American rural life . . . [that] will delight readers of all ages." — History in Review. Reprint of the Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1962 edition. This classic book by Eric Sloane, now reprinted in a hard back volume with dusjacket and fold-out map of the Blake homestead, is absolutely brand new and is sold and shipped by Weather Hill Farm. We have been buying, selling, restoring, appraising, and authenticating works by Eric Sloane for nearly 25 years.
Price: 19.95 USD
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Book Series: Does Not Apply
Ex Libris: No
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Vintage: No
California Prop 65 Warning: Does Not Apply
Personalize: No
Literary Movement: Does Not Apply
Era: 1800s
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Diary of an Early American Boy 1805
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Agriculture / General, United States / General, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year: 2008
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 27.7 Oz
Item Length: 11 in
Author: Eric Sloane
Item Width: 8.4 in
Format: Hardcover
