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Author : Bob Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0888997477
Inspired by his own fascination with the high Arctic, storyteller Bob Barton has collected and retold his favorite tales from northern lands. Here are folk tales from Scandinavia, Russia, and Canada's far North.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:678625580
A collection of tales from northern hemisphere countries such as Scandinavia, Russia and Canada's far North.
Author : Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Publisher : Little Books Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781970125207
Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there? In this book, author Alda Sigmundsdóttir presents twenty translated elf stories from Icelandic folklore, along with fascinating notes on the context from which they sprung. The international media has had a particular infatuation with the Icelanders’ elf belief, generally using it to propagate some kind of “kooky Icelanders” myth. Yet Iceland’s elf folklore, at its core, reflects the plight of a nation living in abject poverty on the edge of the inhabitable world, and its people’s heroic efforts to survive, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. That is what the stories of the elves, or hidden people, are really about. In a country that was, at times, virtually uninhabitable, where poverty was endemic and death and grief a part of daily life, the Icelanders nurtured a belief in a world that existed parallel to their own. This was the world of the hidden people, which more often than not was a projection of the most fervent dreams and desires of the human population. The hidden people lived inside hillocks, cliffs, or boulders, very close to the abodes of the humans. Their homes were furnished with fine, sumptuous objects. Their clothes were luxurious, their adornments beautiful. Their livestock was better and fatter, their sheep yielded more wool than regular sheep, their crops were more bounteous. They even had supernatural powers: they could make themselves visible or invisible at will, and they could see the future. To the Icelanders, stories of elves and hidden people are an integral part of the cultural and psychological fabric of their nation. They are a part of their identity, a reflection of the struggles, hopes, resilience, and endurance of their people. What you will read about in The Little Book of the Hidden People: • The fascination in the international media: why are they so obsessed with elves? • The meaning of elf: what do hidden people stories tell us about the psyche of the Icelanders of old? • The elves' badassery—they could make or break your fortune so you’d better be nice! • The ljúflingar ... hidden men who became the lovers of mortal women • Glamorous and regal: why were the elves so damn good-looking? • The grim realities: what do scholars believe about all those children abducted by elves? ... and so much more!
Author : Howard Norman
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803218796
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 : Eugene Field
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752381535
Reproduction of the original: A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field
Author : Myra Barrs,Bob Barton,David Booth
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551382692
" Part food for thought, part instruction manual, part stories and scripts to explore, and part encouragement to recharge, this practical book offers a comprehensive approach to using role play and discussion to build meaningful language experiences. It explores issues around storytelling, silent speech, writing, and imagination and shows teachers how to be effective observers and support the deeper meaning that comes from working inside and outside the text. This authoritative resource is full of simple strategies and texts that have been chosen for their ability to engage students, get them out of their chairs, and let them learn actively and socially. The strategies begin with simple games, and evolve into more complex learning opportunities. The model texts give teachers a great place to start, and anecdotes from real classrooms put them into context. These classroom glimpses illustrate the real power that students can bring to their learning as they share within groups and find ways to involve their audience."--Publisher.
Author : Mindy Dwyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0882404946
Mindy Dwyer captures the magic of the Northern Lights in a story that is written like a legend passed down through generations. With her bright, luminous illustrations and clear language, Dwyer tells the story of Aurora, a young girl who takes a journey of discovery and collects the colors from the sky to comfort her. Full color.
Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781728321394
Even though there exist only a few general studies on the subject of Czechoslovak American women, this is not, at all, a reflection of the paucity of work done by these women, as this publication demonstrates. This monograph is a compendium of notable American women with Czechoslovak roots, who distinguished themselves in a particular field or area, from the time they first immigrated to America to date. Included are, not only individuals born on the territory of former Czechoslovakia, but also their descendants. This project has been approached strictly geographically, irrespective of the language or ethnicity. Because of the lack of bibliographical information, most of the monograph comprises biobibliographical information, in which area a plethora of information exists. As the reader will discover, these women have been involved, practically, in every field of human endeavor, in numbers that surprise. On the whole, they have been noted for their independent spirit and nonconforming role.
Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 1537 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781665540063
As pointed out in my last two publications, no comprehensive study has been undertaken about the American Learned Men and Women with Czechoslovak roots. The aim of this work is to correct this glaring deficiency, with the focus on immigration from the period of mass migration and beyond, irrespective whether they were born in their European ancestral homes or whether they have descended from them. Whereas in the two mentioned monographs, the emphasis has been on scholars and social and natural scientists; and men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering, respectively, the present compendium deals with notable Americans of Czechoslovak ancestry in arts and letters, and in education. With respect to women, although most professional fields were closed to them through much of the nineteenth century, the area of arts and letters was opened to them, as noted earlier and as this compendium authenticates.
Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781524620691
As the Czech ambassador to the United States, H. E. Petr Gandalovic noted in his foreword to this book that Mla Rechcgl has written a monumental work representing a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America. The Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech American Biography is a unique and unparalleled publication. The enormity of this undertaking is reflected in the fact that it covers a universe, starting a few decades after the discovery of the New World, through the escapades and significant contributions of Bohemian Jesuits and Moravian brethren in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the mass migration of the Czechs after the revolutionary year of 1848, and up to the early years of the twentieth century and the influx of refugees from Nazism and communism. The encyclopedia has been planned as a representative, a comprehensive and authoritative reference tool, encompassing over 7,500 biographies. This prodigious and unparalleled encyclopedic vade mecum, reflecting enduring contributions of notable Americans with Czech roots, is not only an invaluable tool for all researchers and students of Czech American history but is also a carte blanche for the Czech Republic, which considers Czech Americans as their own and as a part of its magnificent cultural history.
Author : Cas Treleaven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Northwest, Canadian
ISBN : 1575790025
Author : Bob BARTON,Tilman Michalski
Publisher : Bayard Jeunesse
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9791029326813
Anders' mum knits him a beautiful hat. Anders loves his new hat and decides to go out and show it off. But other people like his hat too...
Author : William Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108051231
This 24-volume set, published 1910-15, reveals the development and scope of a Victorian polymath's literary, aesthetic and political passions.
Author : Emily Brewes
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459747029
An astounding tale of a dangerous quest, a talking dog, and fragmented fairy tales in an eerie post-climate collapse future. A long time ago, the Vanderchucks fled the growing climate disaster and followed their neighbours into the Underground. Jesse Vanderchuck thought it was the end. Of the world. Of life. Eventually, Jesse’s little sister, Olivia, ran away and Jesse started picking through trash heaps in Toronto’s abandoned subway tunnels. Day in, day out. Now, years later, Jesse meets a talking dog. Fighting illness and the hostile world aboveground, Jesse and Doggo embark on a fool’s errand to find Olivia — or die trying. Along the way, Jesse spins a series of fairy tales from threads of memories, weaving together the past, present, and future into stories of brave girls, of cunning lads, of love in the face of wickedness, and of hope in the midst of despair.
Author : Villamaria (pseud. [i.e. Marie Timme.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000694016
