About the Book PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: Thanks to Mrs. Kroebers simple, supple style, the stories all succeed as stories; they please, engage, move, or divert without depending for their effect on their exotic source.--The New Yorker The varying but almost always superb story style of these narratives will speak to all.--New York Herald Tribune This is a jewel of a book.--San Francisco Chronicle These stories enlarge life. They remind us of Shakespeare and Aeschylus. . .. That Mrs. Kroebers book should generate such thoughts is proof of its power and beauty.--New York Times Book Review Book Synopsis Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the authors methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves. From the Back Cover PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: Thanks to Mrs. Kroebers simple, supple style, the stories all succeed as stories; they please, engage, move, or divert without depending for their effect on their exotic source.-- The New Yorker The varying but almost always superb story style of these narratives will speak to all.-- New York Herald Tribune This is a jewel of a book.-- San Francisco Chronicle These stories enlarge life. They remind us of Shakespeare and Aeschylus.... That Mrs. Kroebers book should generate such thoughts is proof of its power and beauty.-- New York Times Book Review About the Author Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) was a noted anthropologist and also the author of Ishi in Two Worlds (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor of Ishi in Three Centuries (2002).