Download or read book Sailor Talk written by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk, ' rethinking the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich and complex culture of seafarers in port and at sea, and the foundational role of maritime language in the works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London.