Folklore and the Sea (Maritime)

Type

Book

Authors

Horace Beck

ISBN 10

0913372366

ISBN 13

9780913372364

Tags

Contemporary, Mythology & Folk Tales, Ships, Folklore & Mythology

Description

Horace Beck, a former professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, has been gathering the sea's folklore for 70 years in Europe, North America, and the West Indies. This collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories, both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. Library Journal called Folklore and the Sea "a browser's delight as well as a researcher's gold mine." - from Amzon

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