Könyv Kinfolks Lisa Alther

Kinfolks

Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors

Szerző: Lisa Alther
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: 50 % esély
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5 228 Ft
Most of us grow up knowing who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New Y...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2012
oldal
241
EAN
9781611451764
ISBN
1611451760
Enbook ID
09243122
Súly
318
Méretek
152 x 226 x 18

Teljes leírás

Most of us grow up knowing who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia. One day a babysitter told Lisa about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in caves. Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of her own, Lisa learned they were actually an isolated group of dark-skinned people--often with extra thumbs--living in East Tennessee. But who were they? Descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony? Kin of shipwrecked Portuguese or Turkish sailors? Or were they the children of frontiersman, or displaced Native Americans? Part sidesplitting travelogue, part how (and how not) to climb your family tree, Alther's "Kinfolks" casts light on a little-known part of America's contentious racial history; it shimmers with wicked humor, dazzles with wit, and demonstrates just how wacky and wonderful our human family truly is.

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