Description: With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and retold during months-long winter nights, Northern Tales gathers together a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers. By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, frivolous and profound, this collection transports the reader to the haunting, little-known world of the far North, with all its fragile majesty and power.
Review Quotes: "Fascinating. . . . [Norman] provides excellent background for each tale. . . . [A] superb book."--Washington Times-- (3/25/2008 12:00:00 AM)