Folklore and the Sea

by Horace Beck

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780913372364
Publisher:	Applewood Books
Publication date:	01/01/1901
Series:	Mystic Seaport , #6
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	544
Sales rank:	584,248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)