Diary of an Early American Boy Author:Eric Sloan This book -- part the diary of Noah Blake, who was 15 in 1805, part a re-creation of the life that a youngster in his circumstances would have lived -- is a loving tribute to a vanished way of life. Illustrated profusely with Eric Sloane's superb pen-and-ink drawings, it will give its reader a sense of participation in the past that is... more » all too rare in conventional histories.« less