Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples

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Paperback
2009
$31.83

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.

Synopsis

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.

$31.83

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 25 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 0803218796
ISBN 13: 9780803218796
Book Overview: This collection transports the reader to the haunting, little-known world of the far North, with all its fragile majesty and power

Media Reviews

It's good to see Northern Tales back in print. We don't want stories like these to be forgotten. They remind us that even though Native Americans lacked the written word, they possessed an abundance of great literature. And thanks to books like this it's a literature we can all share now. --David A. James, Newsminer.com--David A. James Newsminer.com (02/22/2009)

Author Bio

Howard Norman is the author of numerous books, most recently Devotion, In Fond Remembrance of Me, and The Bird Artist. He was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction and has received a Lannan Literary Award, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the Harold Morton Landon Prize in translation from the Academy of American Poets. He is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.