Contains these four Eric Sloane books:
Diary
of an Early American Boy. On his fifteenth birthday in 1805, young
Noah Blake's parents gave him a little leatherbound diary in which
he recorded the various activities on his father's farm. The text of that early nineteenth-century book, together with additional text and many illustrations by Eric Sloane, provides today's readers
with a charming rarity—a view of bygone days through the eyes of
a young boy.
A Reverence For Wood. Although the Diary is Sloane's best-known book, many think this one is his best. Wood is God's great gift to the agrarian, pleasing to the senses and useful in endless ways, chronicled here by Sloane in loving detail.
Return to Taos. In his life Sloane made two extended trips from New York to Taos, New Mexico, one as a very young man in 1925, and one in 1960 which retraced his earlier steps. A fascinating glimpse of life as it was in the early 20th century, together with a melancholy consideration of how much thing changed for the worse in just thirty-five years.
The Cracker Barrel. For awhile in the 1950s Sloane wrote and illustrated a very popular newspaper column, generally focusing on some aspect of Americana, liberally peppered with laugh-out-loud personal anecdotes.
