Sixteen stories set against the backdrop of Cape Breton Island explore family relationships, the importance of tradition, legend, the significance and beauty of the surrounding landscape, superstition, and memory.
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Sixteen stories set against the backdrop of Cape Breton Island explore family relationships, the importance of tradition, legend, the significance and beauty of the surrounding landscape, superstition, and memory.
"From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497, at least a century before any attempt at European settlement in …
""Written in the Ruins" investigates the ruins at St. Peters, in the southern part of Cape Breton Island, where amazing evidence supports a wild theory that could answer all the questions raised by the island's curious, unresolved history: was it settled by the Chinese long befo…
Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. This book corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, historical contexts.
"A penetrating look at the life and work of a twentieth-century Gaelic singer-storyteller from Nova Scotia, Brigh an Orain - A Story in Every Song situates the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael in its biographical, social, and historical contexts. It includes th…
"A penetrating look at the life and work of a twentieth-century Gaelic singer-storyteller from Nova Scotia, Brigh an Orain - A Story in Every Song situates the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael in its biographical, social, and historical contexts. It includes th…
"A penetrating look at the life and work of a twentieth-century Gaelic singer-storyteller from Nova Scotia, Brigh an Orain - A Story in Every Song situates the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael in its biographical, social, and historical contexts. It includes th…