A01=Patrick Nunn
Antiquity
Atlantic
Author_Patrick Nunn
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Channel Islands
Coasts
Earth History
England
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France
Gondwana
Hebrides
Ireland
Islands
Isle of Man
Legends
Mermaids
Myth
ocean floor
Scotland
Storytellers
tales
Undersea Lands
Wales
Product details
- ISBN 9781836392019
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What if the legends of submerged cities, land-making witches and sea-crossing bishops are not mere inventions but echoes of real events? Whispers from Celtic Seas revisits coastal traditions from the Celtic fringes of northwest Europe, showing how they preserve memories of dramatic environmental change – floods, land loss and shifting shorelines – carried forward through oral storytelling for generations. Drawing on cutting-edge geological and archaeological research, this book recasts these tales not as fantasy, but as historical testimony grounded in lived experience. With clarity and insight, it also brings to life the tellers and collectors of these stories, tracing how oral knowledge endured even as literacy spread. A compelling invitation to listen again to old stories, and to hear what the land and sea remember.
Patrick Nunn is Professor of Geography at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford (2026–7). His many publications include The Edge of Memory (2018) and Worlds in Shadow (2021).
