The world of the selkies.(The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk)(Book Review)

Quadrant | April 1, 2004| | Copyright

The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk, by David Thomson; Canongate Classics, 2001, $30.40.

THIS BOOK was first published in 1954; this is its third edition since then. It is deservedly a classic--a most gorgeously written, elusively elegiac, delicate evocation of a vanished way of life, and an almost vanished way of thinking and being in the world. More than that, though, it is a mysterious, numinous presence that inhabits it, both attractive and frightening, grand and gentle, like the spirit of the sea itself, and the peoples that live by and with it. ...

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