Firepower: Sea Warfare

History

Beck, Horace

Military

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Fisherman, sailors, merchantmen, navies, shipwrights, pirates and smugglers - all earned their livlihood from the seas and the shores surrounding them, some honestly, some with cruel and cunning. Here are the stories, the tales, and legends which form the lore and fables of these men and women. The rugged fishermen of Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritime Provinces; the privateers and merchantmen of Maine, Massachusetts and the Chesapeake; the mariners of the British West Indies; the seafarers of the harsh and stormy coasts of Ireland and Scotland - all helped shape myriad legends and tales of the deep. Herein you will discover beliefs and superstitions about boatbuilding, weather, creatures of the deep, and the ghosts and demons that have, in all ages, risen from the sea to terrify and enchant men. FOLKLORE AND THE SEA unravels the sources of these folktales, plumbs their meanings, and helps preserve the customs, beliefs and traditions of hundreds of years of seafaring.

Folklore and the Sea

Literature & Fiction

Literary

These are the stories, the legends, the tales which, in the oral tradition, form the lore of the sea by which people live and have lived for generations, the lore still current among the folk of the English speaking world.

Folklore and the sea, (The American maritime library)

Mythology & Folk Tales

The Marine Historical Association

A compendium of maritime legend and lore, complemented by contemporary photographs and comments on man's relationship with the sea

Folklore and the Sea (The American Maritime Library, Vol 6)

Mystic Seaport Museum Inc

A superb account of the traditions and legends of the people who live by the sea; their beliefs and superstitions about boatbuilding, the weather, creatures real and legendary, the ghosts and saints and demons that surround and influence their lives.

Folklore and the Sea (American Maritime Library Series)

History & Criticism

Wesleyan University Press

A compendium of maritime legend and lore, complemented by contemporary photographs and comments on man's relationship with the sea

Folklore and the

United States

Penguin??Books

Classification and Nomenclature of Beads and Pendants

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

George Shumway Pub

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."

Folklore And The Sea (Mystic Seaport)

Contemporary

Mystic Seaport Museum

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