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The People of the Sea

A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend

By David Thomson, Introduction by Seamus Heaney

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December 14, 2001 | Paperback | 5.6 x 8.5, 214 pages | ISBN 9781582431840
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Raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, David Thomson was obsessed from childhood by the Celtic seal legend – that the seal was once human, and can sometimes resume human form – and about the Celtic fishing families who still tell and sing the tales and songs about the selchie, or gray Atlantic seal.

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