Bardskull (unabridged)

Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. <br/> It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or story. It is a sequence of incantations and a series of battles. <br/> For each of the three journeys, he walks alone into a forest in the heart of Dartmoor and waits. <br/> What arrives are stories – fragments of myth and folk tale that he has carried within him for decades: the deep myths of Dartmoor itself, tales from distant family members, Arthurian legend, folk tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. <br/> But these stories and their tellers don&amp;#39;t arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. They come to challenge, to undermine, to sow doubt.