Magic Words

Magic Words From the Ancient Oral Tradition of the Inuit

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Publisher's Synopsis

Magic Words describes a world where humans and animals share bodies andlanguages, where the world of the imagination mixes easily with the physical. Itbegan as a story that told how the Inuit people came to be and became a legendpassed from generation to generation. In translation it grew from myth to poem.The text comes from expedition notes recorded by Danish explorer KnudRasmussen in 1921. Edward Field got a copy from the Harvard Library andtranslated it into English.

Book information

ISBN: 9780983290476
Publisher: VanitaBooks LLC
Imprint: VanitaBooks
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 24
Weight: 195g
Height: 274mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 6mm