Description
| Product ID: | 9781804177808 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The World's Greatest Myths and Legends |
| Title: | Central African Folktales |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Myth & legend told as fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Joining the lively collections of folktales from East, West and Southern Africa are selected tales here from Central Africa. Modern national boundaries complicate the origins of the stories still told in the DRC, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and more but many can be traced back to the Sao civilization of the 6th Century BCE. Featuring stories such as The Prince Who Insisted on Possessing the Moon, How the Squirrel outwitted the Elephant, and The Water-Fairies save a Child, tales from Central Africa share many aspects of the same themes across the continent because ancient ethnic groups expanded and migrated over many centuries bringing the oral traditions with them. Tales in the Bantu and Banda languages abound, the Sara and Gbaya too, each bringing their unique inflections to the stories of Anansi-style spiders or other tricksters, where in the Congo, the clever water antelope or gazelle is pitched against the brutish or pompous lions, leopards or elephants. A lively and powerful read. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. |
| Imprint Name: | Flame Tree Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Flame Tree Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-02-27 |
