Amanda Adams

A Mermaid's Tale (eBook, ePUB)

A Personal Search For Love and Lore

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea goddess Sedna, and the long-haired rusalki or Russian lore, among other legendary mermaids. As she tells their stories, she also expresses a love of the mermaid that surely no sea-bound sailor could ever match.

Grounded in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and intellectual rigor, A Mermaid's Tale also draws on literature, poetry, and mythology for its insights. It is a book filled with depth and detail as it describes Adam's swim through the ocean of her own life in search of the unusual, the beautiful, and the perfectly extraordinary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781926812410
• Artikelnr.: 38371346

Autorenporträt

Amanda S. Adams is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds a Master's degree in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She has worked as a fashion model, an archaeologist, and a freelance writer and illustrator. This is her first book, though by no means her first encounter with mermaids.