Beautifully illustrated Homeric poems of love and longing by one of Scotland's greatest poets

THE SEA & THE TOWER

Literature & Fiction

MACKAY BROWN, GEORGE

Poetry

Bayeux Arts

A fascinating text by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal makes this an exciting narrative for the scholar as well as the general reader. (English and French editions available.) Over 150 illustrations in rich colour make this an excellent resource for schloars, students, and lay readers alike.

Divine Images, Human Visions

Arts & Photography

PAL, Pratapaditya

History & Criticism

The West Coast Trail was born of the misfortune of mariners in the days before radio and radar. This 75-kilometre stretch of shoreline became known as the graveyard of the Pacific for all the ships that foundered there. By up-grading the various aids to help shipping navigate this treacherous coastline, a pathway was created which was finally recognized as a place of natural beauty. Thus the West Coast Trail was born.

Timeless Shore

Allen, George

Photography & Video

Sami Potatoes is at once a participatory research case study, a personal journal, a contribution to the international literature on Northern Planning and Development Studies, and a testimony to the cultural and political strength of the Russian Sami Association of the Kola Peninsula. A startling insight into one of the great ecological and humanitarian tragedies of the twentieth century.

Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika

History

Michael P. Robinson and Karim-Ali Kassam

Europe

In this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn. Thorfinn wakes to the twentieth century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island. During the Second World War Thorfinn finds himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and it is here that he discovers his gifts as a writer. Long afterwards he returns, now a successful novelist, to a deserted and battle-scarred island. Searching for the peace and freedom of mind he had in abundance as a child, he finds instead something he didn't even know he was looking for. George Mackay Brown intertwines myth and reality to create a novel of deceptive simplicity. The story of Thorfinn and the island of Norday is a universal and profound one, rooted in the timeless landscape of the Orkneys, the inspiration of all his writing.

BESIDE THE OCEAN OF TIME

Literary

Between 1923 and 1931, J. Dewey Soper traversed 50,000 km of Arctic wilderness in search of the nesting grounds of the legendary ‘blue goose.’ He kept extensive diaries of his travels and left behind an impressive collection of Arctic watercolors. Beautifully illustrated in colour.

Search for The Blue Goose: J.Dewey Soper: The Arctic Adventures of a Canadian Naturalist

I will burn candles

Deborah Miller

A beautifully illustrated brief life of the Buddha.

Buddha Under the Bodhi Tree

Czernecki, Stefan

Children's Books

In the Introduction to this beautiful collection of poems, first published in 1995, Franklin Reeve writes:      "In the great democratization of our world over the last two-hundred years, angels have become much less formal (as portrayed in Shakespeare's plays, for instance) and more like us - or more as we'd like to be. We no longer think them capable of "falling," like Lucifer, and we don't picture them as the avenging archangelic raptors of a generation ago. They're Raphael's putti. They'e Rosso Fiorentino's parrot-winged child. They're the substance of fairy tales. One calendar even calls an angel "a metaphysical Lone Ranger."      "What more definitive may we say they are? They're samples of our minds. They're mini-pictures of our realities. They're images of ourselves transformed by the music of colors and words. They'e pieces of what we've lost and what we hope to become. I the world of now, between then and then, we be the dreamers: they're the dreams that float on and on and on, from one generation to the next." This is truly a collection to be treasured.

Winged Spirits: Collage Paintings by Jean Zaleski; 24 Contemporary American Poets

Individual Artists

20 multi-colored woodcuts and other images depicting the art of woodcut prints. Also available in a Special hand-bound, boxed in Saifu cloth, edition

Tibetan Sky: Woodblock Prints of Naoko Matsubara

Matsubara, Naoko

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