Folklore and the Sea

Folklore and the Sea
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Publisher : Booksales
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 0785811192
ISBN-13 : 9780785811190
Rating : 4/5 (190 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Folklore and the Sea by : Horace Palmer Beck

Download or read book Folklore and the Sea written by Horace Palmer Beck and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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