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Across a Dark and Wild Sea (Single Titles)
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The life of Columcille portrayed through a beautiful watercolour driven book. This was written for children of 4yrs - 9 yrs but brings joy to people of all ages.
This lyrical narrative chronicles the life of Columcille, especially his passionate commitment to words, music and ideas.
It starts by illustrating the Dark Ages, a time when the new rulers of Ireland were more focused on strife and battle than education. Reading and writing was regarded as a kind of magic and those who mastered these skills were wizards.
The story certainly covers Columcille's mission from Iona where he and the other resident scribes devoted themselves to transcribing manuscripts to create books that were "dispatched, like small boats on a dark and wild sea", to places where reading and writing had been forgotten or ignored.
Lovely sketches of how to make a book and build a leather boat.
This lyrical narrative chronicles the life of Columcille, especially his passionate commitment to words, music and ideas.
It starts by illustrating the Dark Ages, a time when the new rulers of Ireland were more focused on strife and battle than education. Reading and writing was regarded as a kind of magic and those who mastered these skills were wizards.
The story certainly covers Columcille's mission from Iona where he and the other resident scribes devoted themselves to transcribing manuscripts to create books that were "dispatched, like small boats on a dark and wild sea", to places where reading and writing had been forgotten or ignored.
Lovely sketches of how to make a book and build a leather boat.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1681069 in Books
- Published on: 2002-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 32 pages
