American Yesterday

Автор: Sloane Eric
Название:  American Yesterday
ISBN: 9780486427607
Издательство: Dover
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ISBN-10: 0486427609
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 128
Вес: 0.24 кг.
Дата издания: 07.05.2003
Серия: American History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations
Размер: 236 x 159 x 9
Читательская аудитория: General (US: Trade)
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: A compilation of engrossing facts and anecdotes vitalized by author Eric Sloanes own pen, this book captures the living legacy of America as seen in the things that were. According to Sloane, American Yesterday explores our national attic of vanishing ways and obsolete occupations. Impressed by the artistry and sturdy realism of pioneer builders, he takes genuine delight in exploring the unique careers of barber-surgeons, dowsers, tithingmen, sawyers, nailers, plumbum-men, and a great variety of artisans, illustrating the activities, customs, and things created by the people who made their living in antique ways.
Sloane, a devoted student of early Americana, speaks lovingly of the people who spent much of their lives creating wardrobe closets, foot stoves, church pew armrests, grindstones, featherbed patter paddles, charcoal burners, English phaetons, giant hogsheads, drovers sleighs, windowsill sundials, and other items of long ago.
Credited with doing gallant service, preserving records of the ways and the means of the forefathers who got along well with the resources now long forgotten (Springfield Republican), Eric Sloane has written an immensely enjoyable book that will enchant anyone who takes pleasure in reading about the past and views its artifacts as part of a rich national heritage.