Reaching to Heaven by James Van Praagh

Reaching to Heaven by James Van Praagh

Set in the colonists' earliest days on Manhattan and its environs, 'Land of Tribute' chronicles the lives of both colonists and native peoples.

Based on many actual lives and events, we see through their eyes what gross abuses in power can do to bonds made in years of peaceful co-existence. This is a tale of perseverance amidst needless massacres which spawned terrors almost unimaginable to most of us. It is a story of sacrifices made by both the settlers, whom the Algonquians called 'swanekin, ' and those Algonquians called by the Dutch 'wildenfolk.'

To the Venetian mariner and settler Pieter Alberti, Machequa was the epitome of all that was noble in her Metoac people of Manhattan and Long Island. It was she who gave meaning through her shell-beads to every event in her people's lives. It was she and others like her who 'minted' the only 'money' available then to both Dutch and English settlers. This story centers upon his love for Machequa, and his first love after she finally arrived after many years. How this is reconciled in the end speaks to the challenges inherent in such a place as New Netherlands where the long-intermingling of such diverse cultures made war particularly devastating.

James Van Praagh is a world-famous medium who is renowned for conveying messages and conversations between the physical and spiritual realms. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Reaching To Heaven and Talking To Heaven, which sold close to 600,000 copies in hardcover. Although he was raised a Roman Catholic and even entered a seminary at 14, he soon found that spirituality was more compelling than religion. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in broadcasting and communication, then moved to Los Angeles, where at age 24, he met a medium who told him that within two years, he himself would become clairvoyant. Van Praagh's psychic sensitivity increased, and he began to receive messages from the beyond. He now lives in Southern California but travels throughout the country lecturing, giving demonstrations, and spreading the knowledge of life after death. In addition, he conducts specialized tours of spiritual centers around the world, including in Brazil, Egypt, and Mexico.

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ISBN 13	9780451199508
ISBN 10	0451199502
Title	Reaching to Heaven
Author	James Van Praagh
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2000-04-10
Number of pages	304
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