Native American Myth & Legend: An A-Z of People and Places

by Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Book Overview

Here's all the Native American myths and legends--presented in a single volume! Spanning the vast land mass from the inhospitable Arctic ice flows in the north to the warm Caribbean sands and tropical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860198392
• ISBN13: 9781860198397
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Brockhampton Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent work by a naval historian who "gets it"

This is the book later republished under the title _Fleet to Fleet Encounters_. It is an excellent overview of the naval battles of Tsushima, Jutland and the Philippine Sea. While the Jutland section may have been overtaken by new analyses published later, the Philippine Sea section is a major account of this battle which is somewhat neglected in comparison with Leyte Gulf, 4 months later. Particularly illuminating is Grove's use of the battle to effectively demolish criticisms of aircraft carriers as "having half their aircraft devoted to self defense" by pointing out that the success of the US fighters in destroying the rebuilt Japanese carrier air force was a decisive victory in and of itself. Much better than Keegan's foray into naval history.