Black Elk - Joe Jackson - 2016

The Life of an American Visionary







By: Joe Jackson

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 10-25-16

Language: English

Genre: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Format: mp3 64/48 stereo



Includes accompanying reference guide (pdf)



Publisher's Summary



Here is the epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world.



Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews, it is one of the most widely read and admired works of American Indian literature. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed - while the historical Black Elk has faded from view.



In this sweeping book, Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West.



Born in an era of rising violence, Black Elk killed his first man at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the massacre at Wounded Knee. But Black Elk was not a warrior, and instead chose the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that haunted and inspired him, even after he converted to Catholicism in his later years.



In Black Elk, Jackson has crafted a true American epic, restoring to Black Elk the richness of his times and gorgeously portraying a life of heroism and tragedy, adaptation and endurance, in an era of permanent crisis on the Great Plains.



©2016 Joe Jackson (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.











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