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."
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Everything you always wanted to know about sea lore but didn't know were to ask. -- Oceans
Scholarship is present throughout the book and plenty of it and Professor Beck has done this superbly well. -- Dolphin Book Club News
This beautifully produced and comprehensive volume should be in any large folklore or maritime collection. -- Library Journal
Scholarship is present throughout the book and plenty of it and Professor Beck has done this superbly well. -- Dolphin Book Club News
This beautifully produced and comprehensive volume should be in any large folklore or maritime collection. -- Library Journal
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A superb account of the traditions and legends of the people who live by the sea; their beliefs and superstitions about boatbuilding, the weather, creatures real and legendary, the ghosts and saints and demons that surround and influence their lives.
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This is a book devoted to the study of nautical folklore. It gives such things as superstitions, colorful tales, ship naming customs, songs and the like and much of the folklore of the sailors life. It is told by an author who appears in his photo like and has the personality of, exactly the person who should be dealing with the subject, a retired old salt at a seaside inn and so on. If he ever actually does tell stories at an inn, I would not find it odd.
It is a great book and one which can be read over and over. It provides splendid entertainment as well as interesting knowledge in a warmhearted manner.
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This review is from: Folklore and the Sea (Maritime) (Paperback)
I was researching folklore in the New England coastal region when I came across this book. It was wonderfully written and provided me with everything I was looking for. Horace Beck obviously knows what he is writting about. I give this book 5 stars!
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WITH a little luck almost anything will float and even make considerable passages at sea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indies, North America, Nova Scotia, United States, British Isles, New England, New York, Chesapeake Bay, Old World, Rhode Island, Middle Ages, Block Island, Flying Dutchman, West Indian, Cape Horn, New World, Tory Island, Flying Cloud, Grand Banks, American Revolution, Banks of Newfoundland, World War, Cape Breton, John Smith, Cape Cod New!
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WITH a little luck almost anything will float and even make considerable passages at sea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indies, North America, Nova Scotia, United States, British Isles, New England, New York, Chesapeake Bay, Old World, Rhode Island, Middle Ages, Block Island, Flying Dutchman, West Indian, Cape Horn, New World, Tory Island, Flying Cloud, Grand Banks, American Revolution, Banks of Newfoundland, World War, Cape Breton, John Smith, Cape Cod New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend by David Thomson on 5 pages
- Superstitions of Sailors by Angelo S. Rappaport on 4 pages
- Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Modern Library Classics) by Richard Henry Dana Jr. on 4 pages
- Songs of American sailormen by Joanna Carver Colcord on 4 pages
- Folklore of Nova Scotia by Mary L Fraser on 4 pages
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- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- After the Storm : True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea by John Rousmaniere in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast (Pictorial Discovery Guide) by Elinor Dewire on page 124
- The American Discovery of Europe by Jack D. Forbes in Back Matter
- Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: STORIES OF BLACK PULLMAN PORTERS (Publications of the American Folklore Society) by Jack Santino in Back Matter
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