Tales from a Free-Range Childhood

by Donald Davis

Book Overview

In his first new book in six years, Donald Davis, considered by many to be the father of family tales, returns to recollections of growing up in the southern Appalachians, and especially of his relationship with his sibling Joe. Davis has remarked that he "didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them" from a family of traditional storytellers that has lived on the same western North Carolina land since 1781. Among this collection of 18 chronologically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895875098
• ISBN13: 9780895875099
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Blair - Blair
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"