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Attractively bound in finely woven red and blue cloth in alternating horizontal lines. Spine stamped and lettered in white. Very clean and tight throughout; with photographic endpapers depicting landscapes. Very, clean, crisp, and tight throughout with numerous illustrations. With rose-colored topstaining. In the original pictorial dust jacket priced at $3.00 at the bottom of the inside front flap. With some tape applied to the verso to a V-shaped tear at the bottom of the front panel; and light tape to strengthen the separations at the spine folds; with a narrow 3" strip missing from the top edge of the spine and into the top of the front panel, not affecting any of the lettering. The second edition in an uncommon jacket. During the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston produced two other musical revues, From Sun to Sun, which was a revised adaptation of The Great Day, and Singing Steel. Hurston had a strong belief that folklore should be dramatized. Hurston's first three novels were published in the 1930s: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934); Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), written during her fieldwork in Haiti and considered her masterwork; and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939). In 1937, Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct ethnographic research in Jamaica and Haiti.[54] Tell My Horse (1938) documents her account of her fieldwork studying spiritual and cultural rituals in Jamaica and vodoun in Haiti.As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural interest. With "Second Impression" on the copyright page and the date of 1938.

An anthropological study by Zora Neale Hurston, exploring the culture and traditions surrounding Haitian Vodou and Jamaican witchcraft.