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Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 925, frontispiece portrait, 22 cm tall, octavo. Blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Covers show minor wear at corners, card pocket on rear pastedown, no other markings.
Memoirs Of Jeremiah Curtin Original Hardcover by Jeremiah Curtin Edited Joseph Schafer - 1940
by Jeremiah Curtin Edited Joseph Schafer
Memoirs Of Jeremiah Curtin Original Hardcover
by Jeremiah Curtin Edited Joseph Schafer
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Very Good+ Blue Hardcover 925 pp. B/W Photos Frontis Portrait This Great late Nineteenth Century American Collector of Irish Gaelic Myths traveled to post potato Famine Ireland to collect in Gaelic and write vividly and did the same journey to the Seneca Iroquois as well as the Mayan and Native west coast native peoples. His views of politics and cultures is like a time machine.Visits Russia, Poland, Italy translating. His linguistic achievements and his collecting are startling as is his 19th Century racism but it is a utterly remarkable widow into a American mind that was a mythic in its thought as the Mayans he visits. Great painter of pictures with his words that he travels to Guatemala seventeen miles from a train just to collect myths. Very good shape NOT a library. NO underlines. Tight binding Clean spine. a lot of foxing on a few pages but far better than usual. Bright tight and clean. See our photos Three Geese In Flight Celtic and Native American Myths since 1977
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- Keywords irish potato famine irish folklore seneca folklore iroquois linguist polish linguist russian travel writing guatemal polish author russian travel maya nineteenth century america wisconsin writers
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Original 1940 First Edition Hardcover From the USC Alan Dundes Folkloristics Collection Library Near Very Good Clean 923 pp. Photos. Early owners signature on first free endpaper else clean No writing Some color rubbing without loss binding tight. See our Scans. Amazing Folklore and Linguistic study on the Seneca reservation with the Modocs and Wintus in California and Oregon. In the west of Ireland with Irish Gaelic speakers great Ghost story told of a man who fed a ghost and quit haunting a Well. Finn McCool and the Fianna. North Wales and Russia with Tolstoy and Armenians and Kurds.Speaking each and every language In Hebrew speaking Jerusalem. Anyone interested in the Folklore and language of the cultures mentioned will find this politically incorrect American Smithsonian Harvard scholar a true treasure
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