Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales

Title

en_US Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales

Description

en_US A.W. Reed

Creator

en_US Reed, A.W.

Contributor

en_US Papps, E.H.

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:29Z

en_US 2002-12

en_US 1982

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1965

Abstract

en_US Here is an earlier edition of a book I have already listed under 1965/89. The two volumes together give rise to some engaging observations, I believe. The cover art will change from the anonymous illustration here of an older man holding a small statue or person to John Rissetto's Man in the Mountain image on the 1989 edition. The printer will change from Shanghai Printing Press in Hong Kong here to Imago Productions in Singapore there. A.W. Reed has written and published four books in the Reed Books series by the time of this book; the later edition will list seven on its back cover. I will repeat here some of the comments I made there. The seventy-three stories are alphabetically arranged and direct themselves overwhelmingly to etiology. Three clever tales which are not fables that may strike a contemporary reader are The Coming of Death (21), Dingo and the Native Cat (23), and The Spear with the Stingray Spines (126). The best of what I would call fables is The Turtle, the Oyster, and the Whale (133). Otherwise the closest stories to being fables are found on 26, 40, 44, 52, 90, 103, 118, and 137. The art is simple. The best art may be on 44 for The Frog and the Flies.

Identifier

en_US 0589070002

en_US 5476 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81010

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Reed Books

en_US Frenchs Forest, Australia

Subject

en_US GR365.R4 1965b

en_US Aboriginal

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole