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The Voyage of St Brendan

11 Brendan 14 The Burning of the Book 15 The Boat 16 Brendan's Meditation 17 The Crew 18 Shore Song 19 The Great Fish 22 The Mermayd 23 Thirsting Souls 24 The Coagulated Sea 26 The Cliff-top Monastery 27 Interlude 28 The Rock Saint 29 Hellmouth 32 The Siren 33 The Stolen Bridle 34 Devils' Mountain 36 Respite 37 Brendan's Vision 39 Many Fish 40 The Turf Rider 42 Judas 43 Burning Birds 44 Multum Bona Terra 47 The Walserands 48 The Sea Leaf 50 The Sea Serpent 52 A World Below 53 The New Book 54 Home 56 Burial 59 Notes 68 Select bibliography Illustrations by Kathleen Neeley 13 St Brendan 21 Jasconius 31 Hellmouth 46 The Walserands 51 The Sea Serpent 57 Burial
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781780375663
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Author A.B. Jackson
Pub Date 24/06/2021
Binding Paperback / softback
Pages 80
Country United Kingdom
Dewey 821.92
GBPPrice 10.99
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In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed Walserands. Although the roots of this legend lie in early Irish tales and the Latin Voyage of Brendan the Abbot of the ninth century, Jackson has taken the 14th-century Middle Dutch version of Brendan's voyage as the template for this engaging, witty and spirited interpretation, notable for its humour and inventiveness. The book is beautifully illustrated with a series of black and white linocuts by the American artist Kathleen Neeley, one of which features in colour on the cover.
In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed Walserands. Although the roots of this legend lie in early Irish tales and the Latin Voyage of Brendan the Abbot of the ninth century, Jackson has taken the 14th-century Middle Dutch version of Brendan's voyage as the template for this engaging, witty and spirited interpretation, notable for its humour and inventiveness. The book is beautifully illustrated with a series of black and white linocuts by the American artist Kathleen Neeley, one of which features in colour on the cover.
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