Ishi's journey from the Center to the Edge of the World. This gripping work of historical fiction allows us to see another side of the famous Yahi Indian.
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"...This is a powerful novel, both exhilarating and sad, a book about the environment, the human soul and the altitudes it can reach when freedom reigns...a penetrating book with lessons for us all. Here is a story, once told, that you will never forget." -- Serria Club periodical Sylvanian, March, 1993
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This is the true story so unbelievable that it had to be told in a novel, told by one of America's young fiction masters, James A. Freeman.
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A graduate of Shasta College, Reed College and Humboldt State University, James A. Freeman is a transplanted Shasta County, Californian, who, for thirty years, has taught Language & Literature at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA. Extensively academically published in composition theory and research and in critical thinking, he has attended Two Year College Association conferences, often presenting, since 1986. Also a creative writer, he is the author of eighteen published books. Prof. Freeman's own favorite fiction titles are IrishWake: In Loving Memory of Us All (amazon.com, bn.com and googlebooks.com), Ishi's Journey From the Center to the Edge of the World (Naturegraph), Never the Same River Twice (with Phyllis Agins- -Charles B. McFadden Co.), and Liars' Tales of True Love (bn.com, amazon.com). Proud of his daughter, an avid horsewoman currently a senior at Penn State University, Jim lives in Langhorne, PA with his wonderful new family, travelling as often as he can to see his parents, and his three terrific siblings, in their beloved northern California mountain-scapes and river-scapes. Jim would like to note, however, that the mid-Atlantic is his home and that he appreciates both American coasts and the heartland in between.
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This review is from: Ishi's Journey: From the Center to the Edge of the World (Paperback)
This is an amazing book, a modern Adam and Eve story where the last survivor of a northern California Indian tribe must struggle with incest taboos even though he knows that he and his woman-cousin are the last hope for his people's survival. Ishi's point-of-view is vividly realized, both in his wilderness homeland and after he joins the wilds of civilization of 1914 San Francisco. This novel is a dramatic realization of the real story of Ishi, one told through the inventiveness of fiction. It's a book of unspeakable sadness and mystical euphoria, a story almost too true to life and almost too incredible to have its basic in the real tale of Ishi, the last wild Yahi Indian.
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This book is truly written from the heart! You must read it!,
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Beautiful! This book is written with all of your heart and soul. I could feel that in every page. The love Ishi was written with brought me to tears several times. I loved each Part of this book. There were so many emotions evoked throughout this story. I feel as though I know Ishi and understand him. You write about him the way one would write about their hero. You honor him so well with your words on these pages. I want to read it again. I am sure it warms his heart wherever he is that his story has been told so well and lives on. I also love the narrative point-of-view used.
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"Philadelphia Inquirer" review of "Ishi's Journey,": Book Editor's Pick,
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The "Philadelphia Inquirer's" former Book Editor, Frank Wilson, writing of "Ishi's Journey" as his Editor's Pick, said: "This is a wise and wonderful book. The descriptions are lovingly precise, and the whole novel is a moving elegy for Ishi, the last wild Indian in North America, and of his vanished people. If this book doesn't sometimes make you smile and also move you to tears, then you are in need of a heart transplant." 2006
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