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Monsterland

A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination

Av Nicholas Jubber

289 kr

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Beskrivning
Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from? In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journey to discover more about the monsters we’ve invented, lurking in the dark and the wild places of the earth — giants, dragons, ogres, zombies, ghosts, demons — all with one thing in common: their ability to terrify.His far-ranging adventure takes him across the world. He sits on the thrones of giants in Cornwall, visits the shrine of a beheaded ogre near Kyoto, travels to an eighteenth-century Balkan vampire’s forest dwelling, and paddles among the shapeshifters of the Louisiana bayous. On his travels, he discovers that the stories of the people and places that birthed them are just as fascinating as the creatures themselves.Artfully written, Monsterland is a spellbinding interrogation into why we need these monsters and what they can tell us about ourselves — how they bind communities together as much as they cruelly cast away outsiders.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-04-10
  • Mått: 135 x 216 x 29 mm
  • Vikt: 452 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Scribe Publications
  • ISBN: 9781915590299
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Nicholas Jubber is an award-winning author of six previous books. He has travelled across the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe, and Central Asia, exploring the connections between past and present and how stories, myths, fairy tales, and epic tales resonate for the people living in the places where they emerged. He has won the Stanford/Dolman Travel Book Award and the New European non-fiction book of the year, written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, and BBC Online amongst other publications, and has spoken and performed storytelling at numerous literary festivals, including Hay-on-Wye, Edinburgh, and Rome.

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‘Travel writer Jubber (The Fairy Tellers) takes readers on an entertaining and informative tour of monsters through the ages in this captivating look at “what unsettles us.” … Jubber masterfully uses these legends as jumping-off points for meditations on the longevity of such stories and on what they mean for society … Fans of folk horror will love this.’

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