Visits With the Amish - Impressions of the Plain Life

Informationen zum Autor Linda Egenes has written about the Amish for Cobblestone , Plain , the Iowa Source , and the Plain Reader . She is an adjunct faculty member at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Vermont artist Mary Azarian won the Caldecott Medal in 1999 for her illustrations in Snowflake Bentley . Klappentext Who are the "plain people," the men and women who till their fields with horse and plow, travel by horse and buggy, live without electricity and telephones, and practice "help thy neighbor" in daily life? Linda Egenes visited with her Old Order Amish neighbors in southeast Iowa for thirteen years before writing this informative and companionable introduction to their lifeways. Zusammenfassung Who are the 'plain people'! the men and women who till their fields with horse and plow! travel by horse and buggy! live without electricity and telephones! and practice 'help thy neighbor' in daily life? The author visited southeast Iowa for thirteen years. This title presents an informative and companionable introduction to their lifeways.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Egenes
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2009
• EAN: 9781587297854
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-785-4
• No. of pages: 126
• Series: A Bur Oak Book; Bur Oak Book; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Travel > Illustrated books