Nora Moulton's Reviews > Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

If I spent the whole day in a museum dedicated to Harriet Tubman, and I had exclusive access to the most knowledgeable docent, I may have received 50 percent of the information Tiya Miles presents in this nonfiction book. “The thematic focus of this book has been Tubman‘a worldview – meaning her religious faith, her thoughts and ideas, her environmental consciousness, and her holistic application of these aspects in life practice.” Miles writes that she “relies more on a close reading of narrative text than on an assembling of original documents.” With 42 pages of end notes and index, Miles presents a detailed document about Harriet Tubman and the different elements that made up a whole person. This is a very intelligent work, not a historical fiction. Full disclosure: I started this book months ago and could not finish. With this read, I finished it in two days.