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Fiction Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

As True As I'm Sittin Here

edited by Ron Caplan

Publisher
Breton Books
Initial publish date
Jan 2000
Category
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781895415582
    Publish Date
    Jan 2000
    List Price
    $17.95

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Here is the wit and good humour, the ghost tales, comebacks and outrageous happenings -200 stories by 34 storytellers that shorten the road, lighten the work, and make life worth living.

About the author

Ronald Caplan has served as interviewer and photographer for Cape Breton's Magazine for twenty-five years. He has received the Barbeau Award of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, Nova Scotia's Cultural Life Award, the Canadian Historical Association's Award for exemplary contribution to the Oral History of Cape Breton and an honorary doctorate from Cape Breton University. His work is best known for keeping the Cape Breton story alive through oral testimony and images. Living at Wreck Cove on the Cabot Trail, Caplan is the author of several books and the publisher of Breton Books.

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