From Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
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Additional title on the dust jacket: "A Modern, Unsentimental, Bittersweet Account of a Time and Place That Was--The American Past." 8vo. 206p. Black and white drawing on the title page of trees with water in the foreground. Endpapers are maps of Lake Chelan and the Stehekin Valley. Black and white photo of Grant McConnell on the rear turn in of the dust jacket. Dust jacket art "Blue Morning" from a limited edition serigraph by Sukey Forsman, a Portland, Oregon artist. Blue paper over boards with gilt letters on the spine. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, gilt bright (!), else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacet fine and not price-clipped. Grant McConnell is an emeritus professor in the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has maintained a home in Stehekin since shortly after WWII and serves on the board of the North Cascade Conservation Council. "Imagine a valley of incomparable natural beauty, accessible only by boat, seaplane or foot, and protected from the ambiguous benefits of modern civilization by craggy, snow-covered peaks and an Alpine lake 55 miles long. Then imagine a small, close-knit community of fiercely independent Americans whose economic system was based not on supply and demand but on 'ideas of need, ability and neighborliness.' This was Stehekin at the end of World Wars II. [After the war] Grant McConnell and his wife.settled in the Stehekin Valley for what was to be a winter of catching up. They ended up staying several years, observing and being absorbed into the simple and yet complex life of the valley. Trained as a social scientist, McConnell found a community where concepts of ownership and the value of labor arose from the real and immediate needs of individual Stehekinites. Yet gradually the values that set Stehekin apart from the world 'downlake' slipped away, almost unnoticed, re-enacting in miniature the same loss of community that had transformed the entire nation--many years earlier." [from the dust jacket] A unique and intriguing book about a unusual community. NOTE: This is the first edition published in 1988 and not the later 2014 edition. Seller Inventory # 009440
Bibliographic Details
Title: STEHEKIN. A VALLEY IN TIME
Publisher: The Mountaineers, Seattle
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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