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Item Details
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FAR INLAND
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| By: |
Peter Urpeth |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£6.76 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857900498 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857900494 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2011 |
| Description: |
As a young man he turned his back on the island life for life in Glasgow where, ultimately, he runs an antiquarian bookshop. But events soon prove to him that his inherited powers are far greater than he knew. Set on the Isle of Lewis and in Glasgow, this book draws on Gaelic and Inuit mythology and spirituality to inform a contemporary tale. |
| Synopsis: |
As a young man he turned his back on the island life for life in Glasgow where, ultimately, he runs an antiquarian bookshop. But events soon prove to him that his inherited powers are far greater than he knew. A violent assault leaves him in a coma and triggers his initiation as a shaman through startling encounters with his ancestors, only for him to wake into a sceptical world with no place for his archaic powers, and he too is uncertain of their truth and unskilled in their application. Haunted by memories and loss, he returns to his island home determined to prove the truth in his powers and his worth. There, living in the long-empty family croft house, he is drawn back to the wild beauty of the moorlands and the Gaelic culture of his childhood. Set on the Isle of Lewis and in Glasgow, "Far Inland" draws on Gaelic and Inuit mythology and spirituality to inform a contemporary tale that is profoundly original, elegiac and redemptive. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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