David Thomson
The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend
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Raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, David Thomson was obsessed from childhood by the Celtic seal legend, the body of tales and songs about the selchie, or gray Atlantic seal. In the early 1950's he took a journey to seek the legend out, in the Hebrides, on the east coast of Scotland, on the west coast of Ireland -- places where magic co-exists with reality and pre-Christian traditions and beliefs somehow endure.He gives us here the fruits of his search as he found it, and tells us something of the men, women, and children from whom he heard the stories. He also tells of his own encounters with seals, and the dreamlike hold that…
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Raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, David Thomson was obsessed from childhood by the Celtic seal legend, the body of tales and songs about the selchie, or gray Atlantic seal. In the early 1950's he took a journey to seek the legend out, in the Hebrides, on the east coast of Scotland, on the west coast of Ireland -- places where magic co-exists with reality and pre-Christian traditions and beliefs somehow endure.He gives us here the fruits of his search as he found it, and tells us something of the men, women, and children from whom he heard the stories. He also tells of his own encounters with seals, and the dreamlike hold that these have had on him. The result is, in the words of his friend Seamus Heaney, a poetic achievement -- a work of intuitive understanding, perfect grace, and perfect pitch.
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Weitere Autoren: Heaney, Seamus (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-58243-184-0
- EAN: 9781582431840
- Produktnummer: 9632235
- Verlag: Counterpoint
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 214 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.5 cm 313 g
- Gewicht: 313
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