Mandy Haggith

The Last Bear (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER of the Robin Jenkins literary award. Set in early medieval Britain, when bloodthirsty Vikings raided and Christianity challenged and suppressed the indigenous pagan ways, this is a compelling and haunting story of power, transformation, love and loss âEUR" and of the natural riches of a land still forested, treated with respect by those who lived on it. With evocative description of the beautiful northwestern Highland setting, The Last Bear centres around the extinction of the brown bear around one thousand years ago. It tells of a traditional community and its medicine woman, Brigid, who comes under attack personally and for her shamanic practices by 'modernising' forces âEUR" especially a Christian minister who is hell-bent on converting Brigid and her kin to his own faith. From passion and loyalty to an epic struggle and betrayal, will we discover who killed the last bear?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saraband
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910192160
• Artikelnr.: 42523623

Autorenporträt

Mandy Haggith is a writer, creative writing tutor, researcher, journalist and environmental activist. She studied Philosophy and Mathematics and then Artificial Intelligence before leaving academia to pursue her creative, travel and environmental interests, returning to study for an MPhil in Creative Writing, gaining a distinction (2003). Her published works include a pamphlet of poetry, letting light in (2005); a poetry monograph, Castings (2007); a non-fiction book, Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - the True Cost of Paper (2008); and two novels. The Last Bear won the inaugural Robin Jenkins literary award, 2008-9, and Bear Witness was published to critical acclaim in 2013.