Sara Maitland
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
An insightful, beautifully written study of how nature has influenced popular fairy tales like Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood—pairing 12 modern retellings with detailed histories of Northern European forests.
Fairy tales are one of our earliest cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke similar sensations: At times, they are beautiful and magical, at others—spooky...
Fairy tales are one of our earliest cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke similar sensations: At times, they are beautiful and magical, at others—spooky...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A Big-Enough God continues the author's literary challenge by offering Christians a path for spiritual journey that encourages belief in a deity that is larger than our imagination. Free from the constraints of doctrine or ecclesiology, the author comes to her task, the joys of revelation, armed with a fresh feminist perspective. Writing as a Christian and a feminist, Maitland approaches the subject of a big-enough God that is beyond gender or image--but...
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
There were three possible reasons given for the disappearance of the two hikers on Mount Nyangani: the treacherous terrain and climate; the banditos armados; the unforgiving spirit called Chirikuzi. In David' case there was a fourth-that Clare might have killed him.
Unable to remember exacly what happened on the mountain in Zimbabwe and trying to come to terms with the loss of her hand in the accident, Clare is taken home to Scotland where her large,...
5) Far north
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Epic thriller about a battle for survival, unexpected passion, and the temptation of revenge. Haunted by a violent past, Saiva and Anja share an isolated, brutal existence in the desolate Arctic tundra.
14) The Rushdie file
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Documents all sides of the Rushdie controversy, providing an international chronology of events, early reviews of the book, and more reflective articles drawn from the huge, worldwide coverage, fairly and fully representing all points of view.
