1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996388357503316

Autore

Powell Thomas <1572?-1635?>

Titolo

The attornies almanacke [[electronic resource] ] : Prouided & desired for the generall ease and daily vse of all such as shall haue occasion to remoue any person, cause or record, from an inferiour court to any the higher courts at Westminster. By Thomas Povvell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by B[ernard] A[lsop] and T[homas] F[awcet] for Ben : Fisher, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Talbot without Aldersgate, 1627

Descrizione fisica

[8], 72 p

Soggetti

Courts - Great Britain

Forms of address

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Printers' names from STC.

The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A".

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782720503321

Autore

Oman Lela Kiana

Titolo

The epic of Qayak [[electronic resource] ] : the longest story ever told by my people / / Lela Kiana Oman, authors ; Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : Carleton University Press, 1995

ISBN

1-282-86418-1

9786612864186

0-7735-7398-4

Descrizione fisica

xx, 119 p. : ill. (some col.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TylerPriscilla

BrooksMaree

Disciplina

398.22/0899971

Soggetti

Inuit - Alaska

Legends - Alaska

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Co-published by Carleton University Art Gallery.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Preamble -- The Epic of Qayaq -- List of Plates

Sommario/riassunto

This is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales from storytellers passing through the mining town of Candle, and translated them from Inupiaq into English. Now, after fifty years, they illuminate one of the world's most vibrant mythologies. The hero is Qayaq, and the cycle traces his wanderings by kayak and on foot along four rivers - the Selawik, the Kobuk, the Noatak and the Yukon - up along the Arctic Ocean to Barrow, over to Herschel Island in Canada, and south to a Tlingit Indian village. Along the way he battles with jealous fathers-in-law and other powerful adversaries; discovers cultural implements (the copper-headed spear and the birchbark canoe); transforms himself into animals, birds and fish, and meets animals who appear to be human.