Tales of Galloway - Couverture rigide

Temperley, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0705000761 ISBN 13 : 9780705000765

Editeur : Skilton & Shaw, 1979

Synopsis

2nd impression. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ has light toning with little edge wear.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this collection of fifty-one tales from the land of galloway,Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling.The tales are wide-ranging:heros,ghosts and solway smugglers;witches, martyrs,mermaids and fairies;reivers,monsters and colourful rogues. Here are Billy Marshall,King of the tinklers;Sawney Bean,the murderouscannibal;young Robert the Brube on the run in the heather;Trost,last of the Picts,who kept the secret of heather ale;the legend of Mons Meg;Claverhouse and Lagg,persecutors of the Covenanters;the famous poterguist of Rerrick;and many more. Simply told and unadorned,the stories bear the flavour of the region- mountain and forest,silver rivers and lochs,the wild Solway Firth,and some of the most beautiful rolling countryside in Britain. Origionally these traditional tales-ranging from rustic comedy to horrific murder-were told in crofts and rural cottages.They grew naturally out of the rich past and the land and the lives of the people-wonderful stories.And they are still as alive today as when they were first told.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Skilton & Shaw
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0705000761
• ISBN 13: 9780705000765
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible