Quiet and Peaceable Life: People's Place Book No.2

by John L. Ruth

Book Overview

John L. Ruth, a Mennonite storyteller/historian, captures the spirit of Old Order Mennonite and Amish groups in his essays, along with photographs, poetry, and quotations. If the "plain people" of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns, we must consider sympathetically their own expressions and the biblical cadences they echo. Having maintained, with the tolerance of their society, a simple life as "the quiet in the land,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561482323
• ISBN13: 9781561482320
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Good Books
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"