Heartsong of Charging Elk A Novel

Name: Heartsong of Charging Elk A Novel
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ISBN: 9780385496759

ISBN-10: 0385496753

ISBN-13: 9780385496759

Edition: N/A

Authors: James Welch

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From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has known can prepare…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English