Scottish Traveler Tales
Subtitle: Lives Shaped Through Stories
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781578064502
Subjects: Tales; Social Science; Folklore; Sociology; Folklore & Mythology; Europe - Great Britain - General; Scotland; Scottish Travellers (Nomadic p; Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people)
First sentence: A single experience can transform an entire life.
Description: "The "Travelling People" of Scotland are the traditionally nomadic minority group known also by the derogatory term "tinkers." Using fifteen years of field research, author Donald Braid takes readers into the special world of the Travelling People through words, stories, and songs."--BOOK JACKET.