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David Thomson (3) (1914–1988)

Autor/a de The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend

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11 obres 610 Membres 7 Ressenyes

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David Thomson was born in India of Scottish parents in 1914. He was raised in England and in the fishing town of Nairn, in northwest Scotland. After leaving Oxford he was for many years the tutor to an Anglo-Irish family in County Roscommon, In 1943 he joined the BBC, where he had a long career as mostra'n més a writer and producer of radio documentaries. mostra'n menys

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Obres de David Thomson

Woodbrook (1974) 176 exemplars
The Leaping Hare (1973) 80 exemplars
Nairn in Darkness and Light (1987) 42 exemplars
Danny Fox (1966) 32 exemplars
Danny Fox Meets a Stranger (1600) 28 exemplars
In Camden Town (1983) 21 exemplars
Danny Fox at the Palace (1976) 8 exemplars
Dandiprat's Days (1983) 1 exemplars
Woodbrook 1 exemplars

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The hare is one of those elusive animals that is rarely seen. These creatures have a completely different way of living to the similar looking rabbit, a creature that they are frequently mistaken for. The book begins with chapters on the natural history of the mountain hare and the common hare full of the details that they have gleaned about the way that they live and rear their young. There are a couple of chapters on the way that they were hunted for food, including some recipes and the way that they were sadly hunted purely for the sport.

However, the majority of the book is filled with fascinating stories and details of the way that the hare has been a part of imagination and our culture, stretching way back to ancient myths and cave art. The authors look at of the folklore associated with the animals, look at the tales behind them supposedly changing into witches, and the stories that connected the hare to the moon, fire and other tricks that it could play.

Evans and Thomson’s book is a rich account of this enigmatic creature. It is not so strong on the science and natural history of the hare, but they have brought together the vast number of myths and legends that the hare has been associated with and made it a fascinating read. Their interviews with people from all walks of life in the country have given us a direct link to a long forgotten way of life and it is a reminder of when seasonal change was just that. This reissue of a classic not only is timely as more people looking to discover further aspects of the countryside. One for every natural history bookshelf.
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PDCRead | Apr 6, 2020 |
Near the old port of Sligo in Ireland is a large house called Woodbrook; it is so well known that the area around it also takes its name from the house. A family called the Kirkwood have owned the house since the seventeenth century. At the age of eighteen David Thomson was appointed as a tutor to Phoebe Kirkwood in 1932. He ended up staying 10 years. In this memoir, he describes how he came to love the house and the region, and how he slowly fell for his pupil. As well as the story of the family and house, it is about Ireland in between the wars when there was a much slower pace of life.

There were sections of this book that I really liked, in particular his travel around on a bike and personal interaction with the locals and other characters. Whilst I realise that it is important to set the context, I felt that there was too much history in the book for a memoir and it just felt that I was wading through it. Even though the time he was there this was after the civil war and into the Second World War, it was a tough life there and his recollection is lyrical but quite melancholy. Overall was ok to read, just didn’t live up to the promise of ‘masterpiece’ for me.
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PDCRead | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Apr 6, 2020 |
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glsottawa | Apr 4, 2018 |
I loved reading this book. I knew about the selchie legend before I read it, but didn't know quite what to expect from the book. It is written in such a way as to take one gently back to an earlier era when people, language and culture were interwoven with the sea and telling folklore stories, an important part of knitting communities together and passing the time. The book flows with a lyricism and has a dreamlike quality like the sea itself.
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AlexiFrancis | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jan 19, 2013 |

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Obres
11
Membres
610
Popularitat
#41,203
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
7
ISBN
279
Llengües
11

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