Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter

Klappentext Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez -- National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for his bestselling masterwork Of Wolves and Men -- has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes, and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit, erotic adventure, and rueful wisdom. Zusammenfassung Prankster! warrior! seducer! fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man! scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez -- National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for his bestselling masterwork Of Wolves and Men -- has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes! and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit! erotic adventure! and rueful wisdom.

Product details

• Authors: B. Lopez, Barry H Lopez, Barry H. Lopez, Barry Holstun Lopez
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1990
• EAN: 9780380711116
• ISBN: 978-0-380-71111-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Indigenous Peoples, History of Religion, Literary essays, Spirituality and religious experience, Nature and the natural world: general interest, NATURE: Essays, RELIGION: Spirituality, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, NATURE: General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Indigenous Studies, RELIGION: Eschatology, RELIGION: Indigenous, Folk & Tribal, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, nonfiction;nature;world;outdoors;natural world;natural