Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Tales

Lawrence Millman

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The first comprehensive collection of Eskimo folktales in over sixty years, these stories reveal a tradition close in spirit to modern fiction. Not for queasy readers, A Kayak Full of Ghosts deals with strange and even gruesome events in the barren Arctic where, in the minds of the storytellers, all manner of behavior is imaginable. Mythic and beautiful, violent and scatological, these tales come from an oral tradition that bars few holds. Here you will meet a memorable gallery of characters: children who eat their parents; hunters who kill their prey by breaking wind; men who marry rocks; women who marry their sons’ wives; old people who wed insects; women with iron tails; children who grow antlers; a shaman who turns himself into any animal he wants; and animals who obtain their body parts by stealing from the human dead. Taken together, these stories portray a rich culture in a remote land, where eerie flowers bloom in the floes of the human mind. .

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Interlink Books

Release: September 01, 2003

ISBN: 1566565251

ISBN 13: 9781566565257

A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Tales

Lawrence Millman

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The first comprehensive collection of Eskimo folktales in over sixty years, these stories reveal a tradition close in spirit to modern fiction. Not for queasy readers, A Kayak Full of Ghosts deals with strange and even gruesome events in the barren Arctic where, in the minds of the storytellers, all manner of behavior is imaginable. Mythic and beautiful, violent and scatological, these tales come from an oral tradition that bars few holds. Here you will meet a memorable gallery of characters: children who eat their parents; hunters who kill their prey by breaking wind; men who marry rocks; women who marry their sons’ wives; old people who wed insects; women with iron tails; children who grow antlers; a shaman who turns himself into any animal he wants; and animals who obtain their body parts by stealing from the human dead. Taken together, these stories portray a rich culture in a remote land, where eerie flowers bloom in the floes of the human mind. .

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Interlink Books

Release: September 01, 2003

ISBN: 1566565251

ISBN 13: 9781566565257

More books from Lawrence Millman

The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic

4.1/5 ( ratings)

At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Last Places: A Journey in the North

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore

An Evening Among the Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Our Like Will Not Be There Again: Notes from the West of Ireland

Hiking to Siberia: Curious Tales of Travel and Travelers

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Wolverine Creates the World: Labrador Indian Tales

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Thirty Years in the Golden North

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Jesse le héros

3.7/5 ( ratings)

True North: A Journey into Unexplored Wilderness

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Book of Origins: Rude Tales from the Big Bang to the Big Now

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Marooned in the Arctic

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Wolverine the Trickster, Labrador Innu Tales

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Giant Polypores & Stoned Reindeer: Rambles in Kingdom Fungi

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Golden Grindstone: One Man's Adventures in the Yukon

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Death On Ice (The Lawrence Millman Library)

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Paris Was My Paramour and Other Lost Diaries

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fascinating Fungi of New England

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?