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Storyland : a new mythology of Britain / Amy Jeffs

Jeffs, Amy [Verfasserin/Verfasser, Illustration]

London : riverrun, 2021

XX, 360 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm

Englisch

978-1-5294-0797-6 (hbk. : £25.00); 978-1-5294-0800-3 (pbk)

978-1-5294-0798-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 1314898488     

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LB 58190  | HG 420  | HG 436      Ähnliche Literatur

398.20941

*Großbritannien ; Mythologie ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Folklore -- Great Britain ; Folklore -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works ; Mythology, British ; Mythology, British -- Pictorial works

It begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the wars between Britons, Saxons and Vikings, and closes with the arrival of the Normans. These are retellings of medieval tales of legend, landscape and the yearning to belong, inhabited with characters now half-remembered: Brutus, Albina, Scota, Arthur and Bladud among them. Told with narrative flair, embellished in stunning artworks and glossed with a rich and erudite commentary. We visit beautiful, sacred places that include prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge and Wayland's Smithy, spanning the length of Britain from the archipelago of Orkney to as far south as Cornwall; mountains and lakes such as Snowdon and Loch Etive and rivers including the Ness, the Soar and the story-silted Thames in a vivid, beautiful tale of our land steeped in myth. It Illuminates a collective memory that still informs the identity and political ambition of these places.