“Eric Sloane, whose home was an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Connecticut, was a devoted student of ‘our vanishing landscape’ for many years - ever since he discovered on his property a number of quaint old tools and discarded farm implements. Impressed by the artistry and sturdy realism of pioneer builders, he began to explore, study, compare, and assemble all the fact La he could about ‘the American way of life’ as it was lived on the days when the settlers had little more than strength, endurance, and inexhaustible resourcefulness to pit against their surroundings. And, as he studied, he used his artist’s pen, vitalized by a very human feeling for the scores of thousands anonymous builders whose unique democratic integrity which is revealed in the pages of this book and in the entire history of the nation.”
Hardcovers. Books feel brand new, slip case has gentle shelf wear.
“Eric Sloane, whose home was an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Connecticut, was a devoted student of ‘our vanishing landscape’ for many years - ever since he discovered on his property a number of quaint old tools and discarded farm implements. Impressed by the artistry and sturdy realism of pioneer builders, he began to explore, study, compare, and assemble all the fact La he could about ‘the American way of life’ as it was lived on the days when the settlers had little more than strength, endurance, and inexhaustible resourcefulness to pit against their surroundings. And, as he studied, he used his artist’s pen, vitalized by a very human feeling for the scores of thousands anonymous builders whose unique democratic integrity which is revealed in the pages of this book and in the entire history of the nation.”
Hardcovers. Books feel brand new, slip case has gentle shelf wear.
