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Genre/Form: | Fiction Psychological fiction Historical fiction Biographical fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Cheuse |
ISBN: | 9781402214042 1402214049 |
OCLC Number: | 972712944 |
Description: | xix, 502 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Alan Cheuse. |
Abstract:
Beginning in the late 1890s, Edward Sheriff Curtis undertook the seemingly overwhelming odyssey of capturing the past, of documenting and photographing the fading way of life of the American Indian. Drawn on his epic journey by a series of female muses, Curtis turns his lens on a landscape of unparalleled beauty and tradition. His desire to complete his destiny as foretold by Chief Joseph, to photograph all of the hundreds of western American Indian tribes, is a haunting tale of the struggle between ambition and duty.
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