Bøger af Jerry Ellis

The Cherokee author offers a unique and insightful history of the Cherokee because he actually walked the 900 mile route of the Trail of Tears and has lectured about Cherokee history and culture for over twenty years in the USA, Asia, Africa and Europe. His book about walking the Trail of Tears, WALKING THE TRAIL, was nominated by Random House for a Pulitzer Prize. CHEROKEE HISTORY FOR INDIAN LOVERS weaves the most dynamic and important people and events into a compelling and easily understood overview of the Cherokee. The book is fortified with historic photos, maps, documents and political cartoons to empower the reader to feel that he is living history as it happens.

Breaking Bread With Misfits is for anyone who strives, and struggles, to live and to love on a deeper level than the masses, and it's aimed at all who have ever felt a longing and a sense of adventure to get more from life, and that is especially true for all kinds of Artists. Some of the passages are fun, surprising, and humorous, and others are hauntingly serious as they arouse mind, heart and soul. They range from two sentences to four pages, and the book is best read as if savoring an intimate, open, and honest conversation with a magical stranger who becomes a cherished friend. The book goes beautifully with a good cup of coffee on a cozy porch or balcony or in bed while sipping a fine glass of wine. The locations in Breaking Bread take place in Rome, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Hong Kong, and in the lush green mountains of NE Alabama in the Old Cherokee Nation, as well as in other fascinating places.

Responding to the enduring lure of the West, Jerry Ellis sets out-on foot-to follow the trail of the Pony Express.

In 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman made Civil War history with his infamous March to the Sea across Georgia. More than a century later, Jerry Ellis set out along the same route in search of the past and his southern and Cherokee heritage. Here he confronts the complexities of his native region.

One fall morning Jerry Ellis donned a backpack and began a long, lonely walk: retracing the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the nine hundred miles his ancestors had walked in 1838. Following in their footsteps, Ellis traveled through small southern towns, along winding roads, and amid quiet forests, encountering a memorable array of people who live along the trail today.