Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385721776)

From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the "Moses of Her People."

Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with lively imagined vignettes that transform the legendary icon into flesh and blood. We travel with Tubman on slave-freeing raids in the heart of the Confederacy, along the treacherous route of the Underground Railroad, and onto the battlefields of the Civil War. Integrating extensive research and interviews with scholars and historians into a rich and mesmerizing chronicle, Lowry brings an American hero to life as never before.

Author: Beverly Lowry
ISBN-10: 0385721773
ISBN-13: 9780385721776
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2008
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/03/2008 pg. 20