The Cradle of Stone - Hardcover

Pratt, Jeff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 099946230X ISBN 13: 9780999462300

Publisher: Can't Put It Down Books, 2017

Synopsis

Alonqua, a Lenape boy of the early 1800’s, an orphan, is sent by Mawenteh, his elderly guardian, on a journey to a sacred waterfall. This is Mawenteh’s last request, for that very night he will die.

The journey takes Alonqua from the heart of a beaver lodge to the heart of a great storm, from the release of a snared otter to a bond with a mother eagle. And ultimately to an understanding of the White Man who will come to warn his village of impending destruction.

Unknown to Alonqua at the beginning, the journey is a vision quest. What he learns on the way is his Spirit Name and the courage to do what is true and right—for himself, for his people, and for the sacred earth.

 

About this title

About the Author:

A teacher for 32 years, Jeff Pratt translated “retirement” into an eight-year journey of redemption. He spent much of his childhood guided by the animals and trees of a little valley near Wooster, Ohio. Nestled in the valley were an island of pines, a little stream and four ponds. Pratt knew all the deer paths, the fox den, the best fishing holes and the best swinging vines. Every child should have such a place, but too few do, and often in this world, such places do not last. The end of “the valley” began with survey stakes, then machinery, then a four-lane highway that took traffic around the city. And there was nothing a12-year-old boy could do about it. It has taken 8 years of journeying, from Ohio to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, for Pratt to find that valley once again—first with a little house along a cascading brook in a town called Passumpsic (Abenaki for clear-flowing water). And second with a book—this one—the one you hold right now.

Review:

"Real magic and real mystery is all around us at every moment. We need but stop, put our gadgets away, Listen, Feel, Observe, Open the door of understanding And embrace what it means To be a human being. No matter where you are on your journey This book encourages The Awakening of the spirit Within."

Jim Beers

Lenape educator and musician, former spokesman for the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania

About this edition

• Publisher: Can't Put It Down Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 099946230X
• ISBN 13: 9780999462300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212