Friday 4 February 2011

Strange Lands : A Field Guide to the Celtic Otherworld

[[posterous-content:pid___0]]Strange Lands is the fruit of Andy Paciorek's epic voyage into the Celtic Otherworld. Within its 400 pages are descriptions and tales of a huge multitude of weird entities and bizarre beasts. With over 170 original illustrations complimenting the deeply researched text and a foreword by celebrated Fortean author Dr Karl Shuker; Strange Lands is an essential companion for all walkers between worlds.

Available from http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1957828

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http://www.batcow.co.uk/strangelands/

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"Right from a child, I have always been fascinated by mythology and folklore, especially the rich corpus originating in the British Isles, and I have read very extensively on the subject. However, I can say in all honesty that Strange Lands is one of the most comprehensive single volumes on British mythological entities that I have ever encountered. Even Dr Katharine M. Briggs’s essential tome, A Dictionary of Fairies, universally acclaimed as the standard work on such beings, now has a rival in terms of the sheer diversity of examples documented. 
And where Strange Lands effortlessly outpoints even that classic work is of course in its illustrations, which are truly breathtaking in their beauty, intricacy, and vibrancy"

from the foreword by Dr Karl Shuker 

To read the entire foreword go to http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2011/02/strange-lands-magical-new-book-in-every.html

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