Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486149811
Collection of traditional folk tales introduces a host of interesting people and unusual animals — among them "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Tortoise and His Broken Shell," and "The Boy in the Drum."
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Readers everywhere and of any age will be both entertained and instructed by these timeless stories--more than 40 tales of human foibles, magic, and nature--representing fifteen countries, including Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Liberia, Ghana, and Senegal.
Author : William Henry Barker
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Thirty-six tales from Africa's Gold Coast, include several "Anansi tales" as well as stories about many African animals.
Author : J.K. Jackson
Publisher : Flame Tree 451
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839647802
Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel in the antics of these characters: from Nigeria to Benin, from the cunning spider god Anansi to Agemo, the chameleon spirit deity of the Yoruba people, animals teach humans to farm, to love, to survive and thrive, and offer inspiration for moral purpose. This new collection is created for the modern reader. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Author : Robert Hamill Nassau
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Animals
ISBN :
Author : Joanna Troughton
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780216926059
Once only Mouse knew, and kept to himself, the stories of how the world came to be until angry Lightning broke down Mouse's door and the stories escaped into the world.
Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0486110028
Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.
Author : Bobby Norfolk
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684440025
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this trickster tale from Africa, Anansi proves to Elephant and Killer Whale that in a battle of wits, brains definitely outdo brawn.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 1987-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780805002980
Contains seventeen stories gathered from the Ashantis of West Africa.
