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Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska

In her spellbinding second book, the award-winning author interweaves two classic Athabaskan legends set in ancient central Alaska. This is the story of two rebels who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure. Readers will be captivated by this profound myth about two young people who wander far from their culture's deeply held traditions and eventually must find a way to come home again. Wallis's first book, TWO OLD WOMEN, is an international best-seller, translated into seventeen languages.

Genre
folkloremythologymyths and folklorehistorical fictionadventure
Themes
native american
Setting
alaska
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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