Tales of the North American Indians
Title | Tales of the North American Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Stith Thompson |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780253200914 |
Collection of Indian tales in which each tale is shown to be representative of a certain type of tale which occurs in more than one tribe or geographical region.
Jack London
Title | Jack London PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | Secaucus, N.J. : Castle Books |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
London's famous stories of Alaska and the Yukon in facsimile editions taken from rare copies of the Century Magazine and Overland Express.
Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey
Title | Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Charlton Beck |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813510194 |
Long regarded as folklife classics, Henry Charlton Beck's books are vivid recreations of the back roads, small towns, and legends that give New Jersey its special character. Rutgers University Press is pleased to make these important books available again in newly designed editions.
First Fish, First People
Title | First Fish, First People PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Roche |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780774806862 |
This collection brings together writers from two continents and four countries whose traditional cultures are based on Pacific wild salmon. 72 duotone photos. Line drawings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Northern Tales
Title | Northern Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Norman |
Publisher | Bison Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803218796 |
With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and retold during months-long winter nights, Northern Tales gathers together a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers. By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, frivolous and profound, this collection transports the reader to the haunting, little-known world of the far North, with all its fragile majesty and power.
Fairy Tales from the Far North
Title | Fairy Tales from the Far North PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN |
Thirty-seven fairy tales from Norway.
Far North & Other Dark Tales
Title | Far North & Other Dark Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Maitland |
Publisher | Arcadia Books |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
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More 'modern traditional tales' from an acknowledged master of the genre, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of classical mythology and traditional stories from every continent. 'Far North', based on an Inuit myth, is set among desperate women in the frozen north surviving against all odds. Here is a new version of the Grimms' tale of the seven swan brothers and their sister's vow of silence; the Sirens justify the mayhem they wreak on the Greek sailors, while a tribe struggles over the tattooing of babies in the Amazon. Scheherazade is still trying to stay alive by telling stories, and the Princess Kalito tries to free both her feet and her heart from their bindings. All these stories, formally bold and innovative, emotionally edgy and deeply imbued with a sense of location, address Sara Maitland's primary concerns about the links between beauty and terror, modernity and ritual. Intertwining the everyday and the inexplicable to witty and disquieting effect, her wildest flights of fantasy are anchored in deep psychological understanding and vivid description, overlaid with a wickedly ironic humor.