Native American Animal Stories [Audio Cassette]

Gerald Hausman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1992

A compilation of Navajo healing stories are told with passion and an understanding of the Navajo tradition by the author and are accompanied by music.

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About the Author

Gerald Hausman calls himself a native of the world after living in so many places in the United States and the West Indies. He spent more than twenty years in New Mexico where many of his American Indian folktales were collected and published. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1945, Hausman has been a storyteller almost since birth. His more than 70 books attest to his love of folklore, a passion instilled by his mother who painted the portraits of Native American chiefs. During his thirty-five years as a storyteller, Gerald has entertained children of all ages at such places as The Kennedy Center, Harvard University, St John's College and in schools from one end of the country to the other. Five audio books have come out in recent years and two of Gerald's books have been made into animated and folkloric films. His books have also been translated into a dozen foreign languages. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sunset Productions (July 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564310213
• ISBN-13: 978-1564310217
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,645,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am an inveterate storyteller, which is to say: I love to do it, am helpless not to do it, and I do it all the time, even when I am by myself there is an inner monologue going on in my head. This habit of privately roving around in the land of legends is something I've done for as long as I can remember. My mom worried about me when she saw that I spent too much time by myself. I would creep into a closet and close the door and in the silence of the darkness I would spin tales of all kinds. I was never lonely as a kid because I had the imagination of a wild thing, and I was content to play in the fields and valleys and secret caves of that imaginary world.