Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred (inscribed to illustrator Barry Moser)
Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Barry [Moser], with respect and warm wishes. Keep the good work going! Wilpamkaani, nideha. Travel well, my friend. Peace, Joe Bruchac, October 1996." Bruchac also has drawn as small kokopelli (flute-playing) figure. With Moser's bookplate on the front free endpaper. Moser is a renown wood engraver and fine press printer who has illustrated numerous books, with a special dedication to works about the natural world. He won a National Book Award for illustration and design in 1983 and operates the Pennyroyal Press in Massachusetts. Bruchac is an acclaimed and prolific author who identifies as Abenaki, though his ancestry has been disputed. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. In Roots of Survival, "for the first time, he offers his thoughts on the power of [Native American] stories, how they have influenced his own life and how they may help us navigate with hope into the next century." A fine book in gray paper boards with a blue cloth spine; in a fine jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #1935
ISBN: 9781555911454
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