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"Prayer to the Great Mystery" is a historic publishing event, a remarkable coup that presents 93 newly discovered photographs--along with 150 others--taken by Edward S. Curtis. Deeply human and symphathetic, these images embody Curtis's attempt to preserve the character is Native American Cultural life before its erosion by the nineteenth-century flood of American expansion. Accompanying the photographs is a poignant series of myths, abridged from Curtis's ethnographic writings. "Prayers to the Great Mystery" is a stunning account of a vanished era, and a seminal book for understanding our rich Native American legacy.
| ISBN | 0312169698 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780312169695
(What's this?) | | Pages | 245 | | Publisher | St Martin's Press | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | St Martin's Press | | Weight (grammes) | 612 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | New York | | Publication date | 18 Dec 1997 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Photographer | Kapoun, Bob | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Writer of introduction | Limerick, Patricia Nelson | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | Library of Congress | E77.5.C83 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 970.00497 | |
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"A handsome postcript to the photographer/ethnologist's career." --"The Seattle Times/Intelligencer" "A treasure of Native American lore." --Digby Diehl, "Playboy" "One of the finest examinations of both Native American culture and its tragic encounter with European peoples." --"Telluride Times-Journal"  Be the first to write a customer review
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