Dancing with Trees: Eco-Tales from the British Isles

Overview:

  • Title: Dancing with Trees: Eco-Tales from the British Isles
  • Author: Allison Galbraith, Alette J. Willis
  • Year: 2017
  • ISBN-10: 9780750978873
  • Publisher: The History Press
  • Price: £9.99
  • Pages: 192
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Dancing with Trees: Eco-Tales from the British Isles
  • Notes:
    • This book consists of retellings of traditional stories, intended in turn as sources for oral storytelling. They were selected by the authors because of a connection to ideas about ecology and living with nature.
    • Besides the contents indexed here, the book also contains: a Foreword by Donald Smith, the director of Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (page 7); Acknowledgments (pages 8-9); two notes about storytelling, "Bringing Stories Together" (pages 21-23) and "Telling Stories with the Seasons" (pages 169-170); "About the Authors" (pages 24-25); "Natural History Index to These Stories" (pages 171-175); "Source Notes for the Stories" (pages 176-187); "Further Reading" (pages 188-192).
    • The stories are divided into the thematic sections "Air" (pages 28-49), "Fire" (pages 50-69), "Water" (pages 70-89), "Earth" (pages 90-117), "The Web of Nature" (pages 118-141), and "Living in Harmony" (pages 142-168).
    • Illustrated with thirty drawings by Tessa Wyatt.
    • Data from Amazon UK, with preview of the first printing, as of 2017-02-27.