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Click to enlargeDiary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805

Eric Sloane
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ISBN: 0486436667
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11
This reprint of an actual early-19th-century diary provides today's readers with an engaging rarity: a 15-year-old's brief, concise notebook and Sloane's 72 drawings and explanatory narrative. "An extraordinary glimpse into everyday Early American rural life . . . will delight readers of all ages." — History in Review.
Unabridged republication of the work originally published by Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1962.

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