Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana)

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For his fifteenth birthday in 1805, young Noah Blake’s parents gave him a little bit leatherbound diary by which he recorded the quite a lot of activities on his father’s farm. This reprint of an actual early nineteenth-century book provides nowadays’s readers with a delightful rarity — a view of bygone days through the eyes of a young boy. Eric Sloane has taken the notebook with its brief comments and expanded the day by day entries with explanatory narrative and 72 of his own remarkable drawings.
Verbal and graphic sketches detail the construction of a whole backwoods farm in addition to such common tasks as making nails, building a bridge, splitting shingles, spring plowing, and maple-sugaring. The result is “an ordinary glimpse into on a regular basis Early American rural life . . . [that] will delight readers of every age.” — History in Review.
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