Folklore And The Sea

by Horace Beck

Genres: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

Synopsis

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."

Release date: January 1, 2000

Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum

Print pages: 544