Author: William MacKenzie (of Skye.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Skye, Island of (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Old Skye Tales
Author: William MacKenzie (of Skye.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Skye, Island of (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Handbook to the Isle of Skye
Author: Alexander NicolsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Skye (Hebrides)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Oatmeal and the Catechism
Author: Margaret BennettPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773567585
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Relying heavily upon oral tradition, the book embraces the diverse disciplines of folklore, history, language, geography, literature, sociology, agriculture, botany, and home economics. It covers emigration history, community and domestic lifestyles, religious and social structure (including songs, poems, legends, and folktales), customs and beliefs, and material culture. Discussions are supported throughout by testimonies of many Townshippers, quoted verbatim, enabling the "voice" of the Gael to continue to be heard. Oatmeal and the Catechism will be of great interest to scholars and students of Gaelic studies and folklore in addition to Quebecers and others whose Scottish ancestors settled in Quebec and eastern Canada and helped carve a country out of the wilderness.
American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
Author: Whitaker's Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 3116
Book Description
Blue Mythologies
Author: Carol MavorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781789140507
Category : Blue
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from space--blue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its all-encompassing presence. The blues of Blue Mythologies include those present in the world's religions, eggs, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. Carol Mavor's engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book take the reader from the blue of a newborn baby's eyes to Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and from the films of Derek Jarman and Krzysztof Ki slowski to the islands of Venice and Aran. In each example Mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture. In an echo of Roland Barthes's essays in Mythologies, blue is unleashed as our most familiar and most paradoxical color. At once historical, sociological, literary, and visual, Blue Mythologies gives us a fresh and contemplative look into the traditions, tales, and connotations of those somethings blue.
Australian Folklore
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Mountains Come Out of the Sky
Author: Will RomanoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1617133760
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
From its artful beginnings (Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the Mothers of Invention, and those progressive forebearers, the Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles), through the towering guitar solos, monumental synthesizer banks, and mind-boggling special effects of the Golden Age of Prog (Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, UK), through the radio-friendly “pop era” (Asia, the Phil Collins-led Genesis, and a reformed Yes), and right up to the present state of the art (Marillion, Spock's Beard, and Mars Volta), this is a wickedly incisive tour of rock music at its most spectacular. This is indeed the book prog rock fans have been waiting for, the only one of its kind, as fantastic as the subjects it covers.
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