Far North Tales
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Author | : Kira Van Deusen |
Publisher | : Libraries Unlimited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-01-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1591587611 |
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This collection of tales represents and preserves the oral heritage of Arctic and Subarctic ethnic groups, so that their stories are no longer in danger of becoming lost to future generations. Far North Tales: Stories from the Peoples of the Arctic Circle captures and preserves the wonderful tales of Siberia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada, and offers readers glimpses into the cultures and customs of the people who created them. Gathering more than 30 tales from the Arctic and Subarctic regions—many of them unavailable in contemporary publications and, thus, virtually unknown to readers today—the book provides a sampling of stories grouped by type or theme. There are tales of daily life; creation stories; tales of tricksters and fools; spirits, shamans, and shapeshifters; animals; and heroes and heroines. The ethnic source and country of origin is provided for each tale, as are notes on the tale itself. Background on the geography, history, and cultures of the native peoples round out a book that is a perfect resource for educators and storytellers alike.
Author | : Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : |
Download Fairy Tales from the Far North Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Thirty-seven fairy tales from Norway.
Author | : Michael Bania |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1943328013 |
Download Kumak's House Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
At the edge of a great frozen river, Kumak and his family lived in their house by the willows. Though their house was warm and cozy, Kumak was not happy. His wife was not happy. His sons and daughters were not happy. His wife's mother was not happy. Too small, this house, said Kumak. I will go to see Aana Lulu. She will know what to do. Set in an Inupiat Eskimo village in the northwest Arctic, KUMAK'S HOUSE is a folktale that conveys a humorous lesson on life with Kumak as the foil. As Kumak treks again and again to elder Aana Lulu for advice, the book's charming illustrations incite laughter and introduce children to traditional Inupiat activities and animals of the Arctic.
Author | : Dan Bar-el |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534433457 |
Download Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Duane the polar bear and the other animals of the very, very far north find their friendships deepening as they are challenged by the arrival of a contentious weasel and an unexpected departure.
Author | : Kira Van Deusen |
Publisher | : Libraries Unlimited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-01-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1591587611 |
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This collection of tales represents and preserves the oral heritage of Arctic and Subarctic ethnic groups, so that their stories are no longer in danger of becoming lost to future generations. Far North Tales: Stories from the Peoples of the Arctic Circle captures and preserves the wonderful tales of Siberia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada, and offers readers glimpses into the cultures and customs of the people who created them. Gathering more than 30 tales from the Arctic and Subarctic regions—many of them unavailable in contemporary publications and, thus, virtually unknown to readers today—the book provides a sampling of stories grouped by type or theme. There are tales of daily life; creation stories; tales of tricksters and fools; spirits, shamans, and shapeshifters; animals; and heroes and heroines. The ethnic source and country of origin is provided for each tale, as are notes on the tale itself. Background on the geography, history, and cultures of the native peoples round out a book that is a perfect resource for educators and storytellers alike.
Author | : Will Hobbs |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 006196364X |
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From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen-year-old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada's magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River -- wall-to-wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. The pilot sets the plane down on the lake-like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Suddenly the engine quits. The only sound is a dull roar downstream, as the Cessna drifts helplessly toward the falls . . . With the brutal subarctic winter fast approaching, Gabe and Raymond soon find themselves stranded in Deadmen Valley. Trapped in a frozen world of moose, wolves, and bears, two boys from vastly different cultures come to depend on each other for their very survival.
Author | : Howard Norman |
Publisher | : Bison Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803218796 |
Download Northern Tales Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Sara Maitland |
Publisher | : Arcadia Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Far North & Other Dark Tales Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Jame A. Carroll |
Publisher | : Publication Consultants |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1594335575 |
Download Above the Arctic Circle Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Above the Arctic Circle transports the reader back in time to the Alaska of 1911 into the Athabaskan Indian village of Fort Yukon and beyond. It was a time when travel was by trail or river on routes shared by man and wild beast, when communication reached only as far as the echo of one's voice, and when the first order of each new day was survival in the face of unyielding natural elements. This is the time and place chronicled in the personal journals of James A. Carroll: explorer, pioneer, dogsled musher, trapper, trader, husband, and father. It is an authentic first-hand account of a young man's first decade in the territory of Alaska, a straightforward telling of the adversity and adventures of life on the far north frontier. This story, told with honesty and more than a little humor, offers a kind of kinship connecting author and reader thereby extending a personal invitation to take the journey north through time with James A. Carroll -- Above the Arctic Circle.
Author | : Ron Wendt |
Publisher | : Epicenter Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780945397779 |
Download Haunted Alaska Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
These astonishing stories tell of miners terrorized by spirits wandering their claims, of roadhouse owners visited daily by ghosts, and of reindeer herders who run in fear as one of their own departed comes back in spirit form to continue his duties after death.