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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain (Paperback)
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain (Paperback)
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List price R414
Loot Price R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
You Save R35 (8%)
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A TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022 A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF
THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC HISTORY
MAG BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Expressive,
bold and quite beautiful' The Lady '[a] delight of a book' Antonia
Senior, The Times 'ravishingly lovely' The Times Ireland '[a]
lively retelling of British myths' Apollo Magazine Soaked in mist
and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain,
set in its wildest landscapes. It begins between the Creation and
Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of
giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of
fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain,
England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the wars between
Britons, Saxons and Vikings, and closes with the arrival of the
Normans. These are retellings of medieval tales of legend,
landscape and the yearning to belong, inhabited with characters now
half-remembered: Brutus, Albina, Scota, Arthur and Bladud among
them. Told with narrative flair, embellished in stunning artworks
and glossed with a rich and erudite commentary. We visit beautiful,
sacred places that include prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge
and Wayland's Smithy, spanning the length of Britain from the
archipelago of Orkney to as far south as Cornwall; mountains and
lakes such as Snowdon and Loch Etive and rivers including the Ness,
the Soar and the story-silted Thames in a vivid, beautiful tale of
our land steeped in myth. It Illuminates a collective memory that
still informs the identity and political ambition of these places.
In Storyland, Jeffs reimagines these myths of homeland, exile and
migration, kinship, loyalty, betrayal, love and loss in a landscape
brimming with wonder.
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