The People Of The Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk

by David Thomson, Seamus Heaney (Introduction), David Thomson (Foreword by), Stewart Sanderson (Afterword)

Overview

David Thomson's classic retelling of Celtic folklore. Introduced by Seamus Heaney.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786892461
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	12/05/2017
Series:	Canons Series , #8
Edition description:	Main - Canons Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Thomson was born in India of Scottish parents in 1914. On returning to England, much of his childhood was spent in the country, in Derbyshire, and at Nairn where his grandparents lived. While still a student at Oxford he took on work as a tutor with an Anglo-Irish family in County Roscommon, where he eventually stayed for almost ten years. Later, he joined the BBC and wrote and produced many distinguished radio programmes, including The Irish Storyteller series and a number of documentaries on animal folklore. He left the BBC in 1970 in order to write full time. He died in 1988.

Editorial Reviews

Readers will be carried away on successive waves of pleasure . . . These stories have an irresistible holistic beauty

SEAMUS HEANEY

I know of few books which so ably open a window on the Gaelic scene today or which so faithfully reflect the mind, vigour and courtesy of its people . . . Pounds on the imagination like surf on a reef

Observer

A splendid resurrection of a life that has almost vanished

Daily Telegraph

Readers will be carried away on successive waves of pleasure . . . these stories have an irresistible holistic beauty

Seamus Heaney

I know of few books which so ably open a window on the Gaelic scene today or which so faithfully reflect the mind, vigour and courtesy of its people . . . Pounds on the imagination like surf on a reef

The Observer