Northern Tales

Northern Tales
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Publisher : Bison Books
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ISBN-10 : 0803218796
ISBN-13 : 9780803218796
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Book Synopsis Northern Tales by : Howard Norman

Download or read book Northern Tales written by Howard Norman and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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