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Name: A Story as Sharp as a Knife

Author: Robert Bringhurst
Year: 1999
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Genres/categories:
Poetry, History, Anthology

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ISBNs:
9781553658399
1553658396

The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last traditional Haida-speaking storytellers, poets, and historians. Robert Bringhurst worked for many years with these manuscripts, and here he brings them to life in the English language. A Story as Sharp as a Knife brings a lifetime of passion and a broad array of skills--humanistic, scientific, and poetic--to focus on a rich and powerful tradition that the world has long ignored.