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- catalog abstract "For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling that give her work its magical, elemental force. In a small boat like those her Native American ancestors have used for countless generations, she travels to Ojibwe home ground, the islands of Lake of the Woods in southern Ontario. Her only companions are her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader, on a pilgrimage to the sacred rock paintings their people have venerated for centuries as mystical "teaching and dream guides," and where even today Ojibwe leave offerings of tobacco in token of their power. With these paintings as backdrop, Erdrich summons to life the Ojibwe's spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, and the tales that are in their blood, echoing through her own family's very contemporary American lives and shaping her vision of the wider world. Thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully well observed, her meditation evokes ancient wisdom, modern ways, and the universal human concerns we all share.".
- catalog contributor b12866684.
- catalog coverage "Lake of the Woods.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Books and islands -- Islands -- Rock paintings -- Books -- Home.".
- catalog description "For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling that give her work its magical, elemental force. In a small boat like those her Native American ancestors have used for countless generations, she travels to Ojibwe home ground, the islands of Lake of the Woods in southern Ontario. Her only companions are her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader, on a pilgrimage to the sacred rock paintings their people have venerated for centuries as mystical "teaching and dream guides," and where even today Ojibwe leave offerings of tobacco in token of their power. With these paintings as backdrop, Erdrich summons to life the Ojibwe's spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, and the tales that are in their blood, echoing through her own family's very contemporary American lives and shaping her vision of the wider world. Thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully well observed, her meditation evokes ancient wisdom, modern ways, and the universal human concerns we all share.".
- catalog extent "143 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Books and islands in Ojibwe country.".
- catalog identifier "0792257197 (hc.)".
- catalog identifier "0793357195".
- catalog isFormatOf "Books and islands in Ojibwe country.".
- catalog isPartOf "National Geographic directions".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : National Geographic,".
- catalog relation "Books and islands in Ojibwe country.".
- catalog spatial "Lake of the Woods.".
- catalog subject "977.004/973 21".
- catalog subject "E99.C6 E63 2003".
- catalog subject "Erdrich, Louise.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Ojibwa Indians.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Books and islands -- Islands -- Rock paintings -- Books -- Home.".
- catalog title "Books and islands in Ojibwe country / Louise Erdrich ; [illustrations by the author].".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".