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03608aim a2200409Ka 4500 001 CDCA3178AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240103010037 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 231223s2024 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0593864409 020 $a 9780593864401 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a BIO002010 $a BIO032000 $a BIO002010 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Miles, Tiya. 245 10 $a Night flyer $h [electronic resource] : $b Harriet tubman and the faith dreams of a free people. $c Tiya Miles. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2024. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file) : $b digital 306 $a 00:00:00 490 0 $a Significations. 500 $a Unabridged. 520 $a From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried , an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero—the woman who, despite being barely five feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some 750 people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges, uncannily, is a human being whose mysticism becomes the more palpable the more we understand it—a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, inner and outer. Now, thanks to Tiya Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a African American Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Biography & Autobiography. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=10180405 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/%7BA367BFF0-89D3-4F4C-83F2-D917BA0CB8B1%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/%7BA367BFF0-89D3-4F4C-83F2-D917BA0CB8B1%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/a367bff0-89d3-4f4c-83f2-d917ba0cb8b1 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240103010132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CDCA3178AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search