Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia Paperback – 8 Dec. 2016

Excellent read. Dr Shaw has you spellbound as a storyteller.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough...I loved and enjoyed every page of it...Thank you Martin Shaw

Urgent, necessary and deeply beautiful.

unique

I really loved Martin Shaw's book, Snowy Tower, but I just couldn't get into this one at all. Long-winded and rambling with no clear central subject, it meanders and digresses like a Ronnie Corbett monologue without the jokes. In his previous work Martin Shaw showed himself to be a powerful storyteller but frankly if he recited some pages of this book in his local pub the place would be empty in minutes.It's such a shame because I admire his sentiments and the messages he tries to put across but this work is too full of artifice and self-conscious literary pretensions to connect with me at a deeper level.

I enjoy his use of words. His writing is unusual and thought provoking. He speaks of our connection to nature or lack of in terms of storytelling. Mytho-Poetic. If you enjoy being absorbed into language and a good story you will love this book.

Brilliant & needed!

This book is as relevant as ever. No matter the time period we are in when you read this, it will hit you right where you are

Never read a book quite like this one. Not exactly myth, not shamanism, not philosophy - but indeed a bit of all of that. If you like ancient history, observational narrative, and stories, you'll like this book.

This is the third book in the Mythteller series. The book says 'trilogy' but I'm holding out for more. I was prepared for this book to be a let-down after the first two, Branch of the Lightning Tree and the Snowy Tower, because this book is about the myths of Dartmoor, a place I have visited but have no roots (And it is a book containing Dartmoor myths--I'm not sure what book a previous reviewer was reviewing). However, I have a great appreciation for myths of place, and Martin Shaw knows both myth and place. He has done the legwork and the deep work, and it's evident in this book. It is also something of a map for doing myth work in one's own place. By all means, read all the classic myths and folktales you can find, but this book and this series are about how myth and story live and can be lived today, by real people. I don't review a lot of books and I am not given to hyperbole, but this book could be considered life-changing and the work Dr. Shaw is doing, world-changing. Don't just read Scatterlings, read the first two books in this series.