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  • The Mother Ditch
    Oliver La Farge
    The mother ditch, or acequia madre, is the main water line that is dug by hand and feeds many of the smaller acequias that cover the fertile land of Northern New Mexico. The acequias, water ditches, were used to irrigate the fields of crops for many farmers in the early days of settlement in New Mexico. A unique technology, the acequia, especially the mother ditch, had to be ta...
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    16,50 €

  • Cochise of Arizona
    Oliver La Farge
    This is the true story, told in fictional form, of one of the greatest of all American Indian chiefs, Cochise of the Chiricahua Apaches. Indians were once thought of as warlike, and the encroaching white men as wanting peace, but it was the white men who forced Cochise into war against his will. History tells us that Cochise and his tiny band of warriors not only held the Unite...
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    21,01 €

  • Cochise of Arizona
    Oliver La Farge
    This is the true story, told in fictional form, of one of the greatest of all American Indian chiefs, Cochise of the Chiricahua Apaches. Indians were once thought of as warlike, and the encroaching white men as wanting peace, but it was the white men who forced Cochise into war against his will. History tells us that Cochise and his tiny band of warriors not only held the Unite...
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    30,16 €

  • The Man with the Calabash Pipe
    Oliver La Farge
    From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize winner (for Laughing Boy) Oliver La Farge wrote weekly columns for The Santa Fe New Mexican-a total of some 350,000 words. A collection of these writings was edited in 1966 by his friend, Winfield Townley Scott and published as 'The Man With the Calabash Pipe.' As Scott says in his introduction, 'Though often in the ...
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    22,44 €

  • The Man with the Calabash Pipe
    Oliver La Farge
    From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize winner (for Laughing Boy) Oliver La Farge wrote weekly columns for The Santa Fe New Mexican-a total of some 350,000 words. A collection of these writings was edited in 1966 by his friend, Winfield Townley Scott and published as 'The Man With the Calabash Pipe.' As Scott says in his introduction, 'Though often in the ...
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    31,61 €

  • The Enemy Gods
    Oliver La Farge
    In his first book, the Pulitzer Prize novel 'Laughing Boy,' Oliver La Farge gave us a superb lyrical story of Navajo Indian life. In the fullness of his maturity as a writer, he later returned to the Navajo scene with 'The Enemy Gods,' a richer, deeper book than he had written before and its theme, both an absorbing story and a living social document, is nearer to his heart. It...
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    24,80 €

  • The Enemy Gods
    Oliver La Farge
    In his first book, the Pulitzer Prize novel 'Laughing Boy,' Oliver La Farge gave us a superb lyrical story of Navajo Indian life. In the fullness of his maturity as a writer, he later returned to the Navajo scene with 'The Enemy Gods,' a richer, deeper book than he had written before and its theme, both an absorbing story and a living social document, is nearer to his heart. It...
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    32,21 €

  • A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories
    Oliver La Farge
    Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter’s school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death o...
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    22,53 €

  • A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories
    Oliver La Farge
    Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter’s school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death o...
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    31,70 €

  • Raw Material
    Oliver La Farge
    The long, uneasy armistice between two world wars was a trying time for literary artists, particularly for those young men who came to maturity in that period of economic and social upheaval. Oliver La Farge’s frank and honest personal narrative is a typical life of one born into the easy world of Newport, New York, Groton, and Harvard, dumped into the melting pot of the Great ...
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    20,84 €

  • Behind the Mountains
    Oliver La Farge
    Imagine yourself in a secluded green valley high in the mountains of northern New Mexico. You are one of a large family who own a sheep and cattle ranch surrounding the little village of Rociada. Your father, a Spaniard, is the revered and distinguished José Baca, and your mother, Doña Marguerite, is of French descent. Everyone in the village loves and respects your family as t...
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    20,99 €

  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
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    11,87 €