The Land Of The Seal People

Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857909657
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of the Seal People written by Duncan Williamson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No stories were more potent, more engaging, more subtle or profound than these half-animal, half-human tales of the sea. Time and time again listeners enthralled by Duncan Williamson's lore would ask him for the silkie tale. Duncan grew up with the seals, slept nights stranded by the tide in their colonies, heard countless stories from crofters, fishermen and travellers alike about the strange people who were related to the seal; the silkie stories magically link the two worlds, animal and human, sea and land. This new and expanded edition contains twenty-four stories, including thirteen that are previously unpublished, with a new introduction by Linda Williamson which examines the background of the West Highland belief in the seal people. The Land of the Seal People is a work of a master narrator, Scotland's greatest contemporary storyteller. The book is adult fiction of high intellectual and literary standards, and, as Scottish folk tales, suits children and adults alike. From the oral tradition of the West Coast, these stories are a vital part of Scotland's heritage.

Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781623719333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Seal People written by Duncan Williamson and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 selkie (half-seal half-human creatures) tales from the Orkney and Shetland islands off the northern tip of Scotland which embrace the fantasy, romance and unusual perspective of the Scottish travellers.

Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780940793996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Seal People written by Duncan Williamson and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 selkie (half-seal half-human creatures) tales from the Orkney and Shetland islands off the northern tip of Scotland which embrace the fantasy, romance and unusual perspective of the Scottish travellers.

Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862413736
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Seal People written by Duncan Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jackie Morris
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 1845071093
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seal Children written by Jackie Morris and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fisherman named Ewan falls in love with a selkie--half-woman, half-seal--who bears him two children before returning to her own people below the waves. Reprint.

Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613777056
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Seal People written by Duncan Williamson and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Scottish folk tales featuring silkies, the seal people who can take human shape.

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613743025
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sword at Sunset written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war—and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the interweaving of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imagination, and hypnotic narrative skill comes a novel that has richly earned its reputation as a classic.

Author : Jen Deaderick
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580058728
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She the People written by Jen Deaderick and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, smart, and smart-ass graphic history of women's ongoing quest for equality In March 2017, Nevada surprised the rest of America by suddenly ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment--thirty-five years after the deadline had passed. Hey, better late than never, right? Then, lo and behold, a few months later, Illinois followed suit. Hurrah for the Land of Lincoln! That left the ERA just one state short of the congressional minimum for ratification. One state--and a legacy of shame--are what stand between American women and full equality. She the People takes on the campaign for change by offering a cheekily illustrated, sometimes sarcastic, and all-too-true account of women's evolving rights and citizenship. Divided into twelve historical periods between 1776 and today, journalist, historian, and activist Jen Deaderick takes readers on a walk down the ERA's rocky road to become part of our Constitution by highlighting changes in the legal status of women alongside the significant cultural and social influences of the time, so women's history is revealed as an integral part of U.S. history, and not a tangential sideline. Clever and dynamic, She the People is informative, entertaining, and a vital reminder that women still aren't fully accepted as equal citizens in America.

Author : Liam Kennedy
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1785370472
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unhappy the Land written by Liam Kennedy and published by Irish Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unhappy the Land Liam Kennedy poses fundamental questions about the social and political history of Ireland and challenges cherished notions of a uniquely painful past. Images of tragedy and victimhood are deeply embedded in the national consciousness, yet when the Irish experience is viewed in the larger European context a different perspective emerges. The author’s dissection of some pivotal episodes in Irish history serves to explode commonplace assumptions about oppression, victimhood and a fate said to be comparable ‘only to that of the Jews’. Was the catastrophe of the Great Famine really an Irish Holocaust? Was the Ulster Covenant anything other than a battle-cry for ethnic conflict? Was the Proclamation of the Irish Republic a means of texting terror? And who fears to speak of an Irish War of Independence, shorn of its heroic pretensions? Kennedy argues that the privileging of ‘the gun, the drum and the flag’ above social concerns and individual liberties gave rise to disastrous consequences for generations of Irish people. Ireland might well be a land of heroes, from Cúchulainn to Michael Collins, but it is also worth pondering Bertolt Brecht’s warning: ‘Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.’

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Ideals Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780824981181
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Seal written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a white seal named Kotick who learns how to get along in his Arctic environment during his herd's first migration. For elementary grades.