Bardskull

Bardskull
Martin Shaw
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NZ$ 59.99
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Hardback
h222 x 141mm - 352pg
2 Feb 2023 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781789651560
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Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book aboutmyth or narrative: rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles. Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories - fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their tellers don' t arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests. Bardskull can be read as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination.
Martin Shaw is a writer, storyteller and teacher who lives on Dartmoor. He founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University, and is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK. He is the author of the award-winning Mythteller trilogy, and other recent titles include Smokehole, Courting the Wild Twin, All Those Barbarians, Wolf Milk, Cinderbiter (with Tony Hoagland) and his book of Federico Garcia Lorca translations: Courting the Dawn (with Stephan Harding). For twenty years, Shaw has been a wilderness rites of passage guide, working with at-risk youth, the sick, returning veterans and many women and men seeking a deeper life.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789651560
Published: 2 Feb 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Unbound
Publisher: Unbound
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 141mm
Pages: 352

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