Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller

by John D. Niles

Book Overview

Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews undertaken with him in the 1980s. Williamson tells of his birth and upbringing in the west of Scotland, his family background...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496841581
• ISBN13: 9781496841582
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"