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Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends
Inland Whale Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends Author:Theodora Kroeber Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves. — "These stories enlarge life. They remind us of Shakespeare ... more »and Aeschylus.... That Mrs. Kroeber's book should generate such thoughts is proof of its power and beauty." - New York Times Book Review "Thanks to Mrs. Kroeber's simple, supple style, the stories all succeed as stories; they please, engage, move, or divert without depending for their effect on their exotic source." - The New Yorker "This is a jewel of a book." - "San Francisco Chronicle« less