THE STONOR EAGLES.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Wrap-around pictorial colour illustrated dw/dj by John Raynes with light shelf-wear and creases to bottom edge,whilst top edge is slightly more creased with light bumping,rubbing with miniscule loss and creasing to head of spine/backstrip.No nicks or tears present.Green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and plain cream endpapers which are lightly foxed.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and grubbed,with fore-edge lightly foxed/spotted; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,555pp includes b/w map. Cuillin - last of the great sea eagles of the Western Isles,who abandons her Scottish homeland in 1917 to cross the dark North Sea to Norway. There she finds others of her race,but a race torn by bitter conflict and seemingly doomed to extinction.For her there will be many years of exile and doubt,sustained only by the dream that one day her young might return to her long-deserted birthplace on Skye.James MacAskill Stonor - destined to become one of the major artists of the late 20thC,but brought up a lonely bewildered child in a storm-racked English coastal town.For him there will be years of uncertainty and anguish in his search for artistic self-discovery. 'The Stonor Eagles' - the artist's extraordinary series of sculptures and paintings,brought together for the first time at a New York exhibition in 1998.It is then that Stonor begins to tell their story, which evolved from the myths and legends created by his strange Scottish father,Liam MacAskill,who had once seen the last sea eagle of Skye,to whom he gave the name Cuillin.Young Jim Stonor's imagination is fired by these tales of Haforn the first sea eagle,of Clew and Mizen,of Askaval and Mourne.And as Jim grows up he must learn to cope with his own special gifts,with the terrible split between his weak but loving father and his strong-minded mother,and the decay he sees overtaking his historic home-town.With the emergence of this great artist,the two strands of this rich and powerful story come together in the vivid imagery of fjord and dune,of love and fear,of true flight and great art.Only slowly does Stonor find the courage to create his masterpieces: only slowly do Cuillin's offspring find the courage to face the dangerous journey over the dark sea.Until at last 'The Stonor eagles' are completed - haunting, frightening and beautiful images of a nearly extinct race which is struggling for new life: the artist's great statement on the 20thC. Author's second book/novel,his first; 'Duncton Wood',also published by Country Life Books,1980 was an instant best-seller (see rja1690). Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight of this item,for correct and possibly,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!