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Folklore and the Sea
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Folklore and the Sea

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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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mystic Seaport Museum
Country
United States
Date
1 January 1973
Pages
544
ISBN
9780913372364

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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mystic Seaport Museum
Country
United States
Date
1 January 1973
Pages
544
ISBN
9780913372364