A Story as Sharp as a Knife

Robert Bringhurst

earliest edition we have, 1999 Douglas & McIntyre, 1999 527 pages

Masterworks of the classical Haida mythtellers ;

"The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in writt...

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A Story as Sharp as a Knife paperback · 2000 · University of Nebraska Press · 527 pages · 9780803261792
A Story as Sharp as a Knife hardcover · 2000 · University of Nebraska Press · 527 pages · 9780803213142
A story as sharp as a knife edition · 1999 · Douglas & McIntyre · 527 pages

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