| Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was Contributor(s): Sloane, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486444112 ISBN-13: 9780486444116 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: This nostalgic text brims with gentle philosophies and descriptions of how we used to live --self-sufficiently -- on land, in homes, and among things built by hand. The author's charming illustrations celebrate our heritage and the spirit that nurtured it, but also recall the vanished joys of America's pioneer past. 44 line illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 2005047089 |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 7.88" W x 11.02" (0.42 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is about once-upon-a-time in America. -- Eric Sloane. Writer and artist Eric Sloane had an abiding love for America and worked throughout a long and productive life to capture the American spirit in word and picture. The America Sloane loved was rooted in the simple virtues of our native soil: love of freedom, respect for the individual, sensible frugality, and determined self-reliance -- all of which went to make up what Sloane perceived as our true American heritage. Nowhere is this heritage more amply portrayed than in the work and ways of the early Americans in our pioneer days. In this book you will listen to Sloane's talk of home and hearth, farm and field, and see all manner of tooks, utensils, buildings and rural scenes rendered in his finely detailed and lively drawings. A visit to America of once-upon-a-time brings us home to a land whose pioneer spirit endures, even amid the rapid and radical changes of our times |