The people of the sea : a journey in search of the seal legend / with a foreword by Gavin Maxwell.
The people of the sea : a journey in search of the seal legend / with a foreword by Gavin Maxwell.
By
:
Thomson, David, 1914-
Publication Date
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1967
Publication Information
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Cleveland , Ohio : World Pub. Co.,
Edition
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[New rev. ed.]
Physical Description
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210 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Seals (Animals)
Seals (Animals) -- Folklore.
Summary
:
David Thomson, raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, 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 1950s he took a journey to seek the legend out, in the Hebrides, on the east coast of Scotland, on the west coast of Ireland, in the Shetlands and the Orkney Islands - places where magic co-exists with reality and where pe-Christian traditions and beliefs somehow endure.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
[n/a]
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Placentia (APA) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 398.24 T38 | Checked In |