Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Legend from Alaska - Softcover

Wallis, Velma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060977280 ISBN 13: 9780060977283

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1997

Synopsis

Pub Date: 1997-09-12 Pages: 224 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins US With the publication of Two Old Women. Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing A national bestseller. her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages. it went on to international success. quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date. more than 350.000 copies have been sold worldwide. Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun follows in this bestselling tradition. Rooted in the ancient legends of Alaskas Athabaskan Indians. it tells the stories of two adventurers who decide to leave the safety of their respective tribes. Bird Girl is a headstrong young woman who learned early on the skills of a hunter. When told th...

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Review:

"A wonderful read. Wallis's writing is simple yet rich...The story delivers a message of overcoming hardship, of being true to yourself even when it is the most difficult thing to do.""--West Coast Review of Books"

About the Author:

Velma Wallis is one in a family of thirteen children, all born in the vast fur-trapping country of Fort Yukon, Alaska, and raised with traditional Athabascan values. A writer and avid reader, she lives in Fairbanks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060977280
• ISBN 13: 9780060977283
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224