A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
Vancouver / Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, (1999). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stout 8vo. Pp. 527. Select bibliography. Index. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Yellow and black boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #13569 Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.
The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. Together they created a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Robert Bringhurst brings both rigorous scholarship and a literary voice to the English translation of John Swanton's careful work. - publisher
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