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Alastair Macleod Embrace of the Sea

Liebe
Englisch
2019 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
370
1

"The tourist to the islands is to be forgiven for imagining that island life is an escape, an [mehr]

Stichwörter: love, the sea, islands, Orkney, lifeforce

1,49 €

Alastair Macleod The Tale of a Northern Atlantis

or the Flight of the Bittern

Belletristik
Englisch
5675 Wörter
Ab 8 Jahren
157
0

photocredit - Richard Stonier - "bittern in flight" "The queen was young, her face pale her feature fine. Vlado had never been in her presence and her beauty struck into his heart. She was clad in a sleeveless tunic of finest buckskin. Around her shoulders was a short buckskin cloak trimmed with fur. Her neck was adorned with beads of amber and jet alternated with mammoth ivory. Her slender arms bore the royal tattoos, and at her wrists were delicate bracelets of white fish bones. Her long blonde hair was braided through with coloured cloth and pulled back and up into a top knot held with a carved ivory pin. On either side of her head, from a black leather band encircling it, hung feathers of the Great Bittern." [mehr]

Stichwörter: early culture, nature, birds, Orkney, Germany, mother goddess

1,49 €

Alastair Macleod Leaving

Science Fiction
Englisch
2888 Wörter
Ab 8 Jahren
324
0

On the small island of North Ronaldsay things were not going well.The storms were increasing and sea level [mehr]

Stichwörter: Space Pods, Orkney, North Ronaldsay, Climate change, drastic measures

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Alastair Macleod The Third Norn

at Bennibister

Belletristik
Englisch
16017 Wörter
Ab 14 Jahren
233
0

The saga of Bennibister continues. There are tensions in the marriage of Isobel and Charles as the the land loses its total grip on him and the sea beckons. Near death brings love and new blood. Enter the third Norn, teller of tales, giver of wise council, guider of the fates. There are three novellas in the Bennibister series; Bennibister (the Place of the Horse), The Wedding at Bennibister, and the last in the series, The Third Norn (at Bennibister). [mehr]

Stichwörter: love, nature, Norns, the sea, the land, Orkney

1,49 €

alastair macleod The Hebridean

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
6607 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
200
0

"The wind was from the sea and the smoke drifted over the links to the land beyond. He had noted the wind. The air never seemed still here. He had learned his bride’s name from Morfor. She was called Mairwen, the fair one. He would soon see. He hoped for some signs of the fairness, for so far she had been so cloaked and covered in feathers that he could not say, except that her eyes were of amber and the lips nicely shaped. Thick dark hair had strewn out below the feathers indicating vigour" [mehr]

Stichwörter: Orkney, love, seeress, marriage, blending of belief, papa

1,49 €

Alastair Macleod Gormlaith

The Illustrious and Beautiful Princess

Belletristik
Englisch
6915 Wörter
Ab 8 Jahren
123
0

A royal princess of Ireland tires of being a chattel traded between powerful men as they struggle for [mehr]

Stichwörter: Ireland, Gormlaith, Princess, love, war, revenge, Orkney, Vikings, Brian Boru, Power of Women

1,49 €

Alastair Macleod Waitukubuli

Tall is Her Body

Belletristik
Englisch
6805 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
413
0

The time is 1200 AD. In the Pre-Columbian Caribbean, conflict between two ethnic groups on the islands, the Caribs and the Taíno, has been ongoing for some time. On one island this conflict comes to a head and leads to an extraordinary event; the crossing of the Atlantic, west to east, following the Gulf Stream . An epic tale of an Arawak crossing to the northern isles of Europe made many years before Columbus. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Taíno, Caribs, Caribbean, conflict, ball game, Gulf Stream, early travel, Orkney, The Baa game

1,49 €

Alastair Macleod Shells on the Strand

a poetry collection

Lyrik und Poesie
Englisch
3359 Wörter
Ab 6 Jahren
204
0

"On the island of North Ronaldsay; the sea was calm, there was no wind and the island was [mehr]

Stichwörter: poems, the sea, Orkney, the Highlands, nature, the land, Celtic belief

1,99 €

Alastair Macleod Carta Marina

or necklace of gold

Belletristik
Englisch
13792 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
266
0

In the year 1588; with the blessing of the Pope, the Spanish Armada sets out from Iberia to invade England. This is the story of a young man's coming of age. Of first love in Lisbon, as he prepares to sail with his father on the huge fleet of ships assembled by King Phillip II of Spain, then a close encounter with death on the high seas, as they first battle the English, then find themselves pitted against Atlantic summer storms in unknown waters as the Armada tries to sail round the top of Scotland. It is also the story of their wrecked ship, the El Gran Grifón and its crew. Surviving, in northern waters, when so many other Armada crews perished on the coast of Ireland, these men owed much of their fate to a remarkable map,the Carta Marina, created by the young man's grandfather. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Spanish Armada, love, adventure, the sea, storms, islands, Shetland, Orkney, Fair isle, El Gran Grifón. Carta Marina

1,99 €

Dörte Müller Schnee im Juli und andere Katastrophen

Acht Urlaubsgeschichten

Kurzgeschichte
Deutsch
12091 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
275
2

Acht Urlaubsgeschichten Katrina lässt sich gelangweilt auf irgendeinen Sitz im hinteren Teil der Fähre fallen. Wie jeden Freitag fährt sie nach Schulschluss von Mainland nach Flotta und von Flotta nach Hoy, um das Wochenende zu Hause bei ihrer Familie zu verbringen. Sie ahnt zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht, dass heute etwas Außergewöhnliches passieren wird ... Diese und sieben weitere Kurzgeschichten überraschen den Leser mit ungewöhnlichem Ende. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Orkney Islands, Liebe, Glück, Urlaub, Spanien, Schweden, Sommer, Griechenland, Fernweh, Reise, Sonne, Urlaubserlebnisse, Aquarelle, Entspannung, Humor, Unterhaltung, Kurzgeschichten

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