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Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Keyserling, William; Keyserling, Paul. Good. No Jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Red cloth boards are scuffed and sunned with edgewear. Front hinge a little shaky. Previous owner name label inside feb. Pages are clean & free from markings, binding sound.
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Keyserling, Willaim and Paul; Photographs by. Fair in Good jacket. 1st Printing. pp. 306. Withdrawn library copy with dust jacket in brodart, corner's clipped. The book has a spine slant, with library markings, stamps and pocket removed including the bottom of the ffep. The book is well read with shelf wear. Text is very good.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book First edition, second printing, hardcover. Red cloth with blue and white lettering on the spine. Red top stain. 306 pages. Very good with spine ends pushed, in a very good, mylar-covered dust jacket with light edge wear. NOT price-clipped. NOT ex-library. NOT a remainder. NOT a book club.
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Keyserling, William, and Keyserling, Paul. Fair in fair dust jacket. The covers have a little shelf wear and some fraying on the bottom edges. The edges of the pages have some soiling and the top edges are colored red. There is a water mark on the back cover. The dust jacket has a large water... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 306 p. Audience: General/trade. This is Pat Conroy's account of teaching at Yamacraw Island in South Carolina. First Edition
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Neat owner's name front pastedown else fine in fine dustwrapper with none of the usual fading to the spine lettering and with very slight wrinkle on the rear panel. The author's second book, and his first by a commercial publisher, about his experiences teaching poor children on Yamacraw Island (Daufuskie Island) off the coast of South Carolina. Basis for the movie *Conrack* that featured Jon Voight and Paul Winfield. A lovely unread copy.
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Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. New protective mylar applied to dust jacket before shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Excellent service, prompt, and always in great condition.
Kimberly H
Aug 5, 2010
good book
I truly enjoyed the book. Every educator should read this book and understand what some teachers go through to make sure every child has an opportunity to learn. It has motivated me to do more for my students.
TheWhiteRock
Aug 3, 2009
A Teacher's Education
Picture a lush, unspoiled island more than two miles off the shore of South Carolina, largely ignored by the world, inhabited by descendants of freed slaves. Roads are unpaved, oxcarts still in use. In the late 1960?s a young, idealistic, white teacher, reared in the segregated south, eager to change the lives of the black children, arrives at the island?s only school. This book is based on the true story of Pat Conroy?s turbulent year trying to change the lives of children living in isolation and ignorance.
?I know colored people better than you do?, the principal tells Conroy on the first day of school. ?That?s because I?m one of them myself.? She tells the children to work hard because their brains are slow and that some of them are even retarded, and reminds them about the switches in the cupboard.
This is a story of a teacher?s education about racial prejudice still prevalent in the 1960?s south. The children can barely read or write and speak in their own ?gullah?language. Conroy?s at odds with the principal?s teaching methods and the bureaucracy of the mainland school district. Finally he sees that the best education he can give the children is exposure to the outside world. How he manages to do this, against all odds, is a compelling story you won?t forget.
sd6161
Sep 10, 2007
Teaching Children
Pat Conroy takes reader's on an emotional journey as a young, white teacher who navigates an unrivaled segregated educational system in the deep south. Behind the story hangs a veil over the ever present, multi-layered civil rights movement of the then recent 1960's. The most powerful aspect of Conroy's writing is his ability to engross the reader so as to journey along with the characters. In The Water Is Wide, the privledge was to move from shame and pain to pride and self respect.
CamOlympiakos
Aug 15, 2007
A beautiful book...
Are you an educator who has lost your drive for teaching? A southerner who has been removed from your birthplace? Or do you just love books? The Water is Wide is a glimpse into the public education system in South Carolina in the late sixties and early seventies, as told by Pat Conroy. A native of the lowcountry of South Carolina, he chronicles his experiences teaching on Yamacraw Island for a year - the injustices, the rewards, the setbacks, and the beauty of home. I think everyone will find something to love in this story, but I think that any educator, and any native of South Carolina, will find it especially real, familiar, and touching. It is not a long read, either. Knock it out in a few hours or a day, and you will be better for it! Highly recommended.