Seafaring Lore and Legend"A valuable and lively resource. Jeans sorts truth from fiction with a sure hand and does full justice to both."—Peter Stanford, President Emeritus, National Maritime Historical Society “A veritable sourcebook of nautical history, beliefs, and heritage. Every true mariner will get lost in this book.”—Boating Seafaring Lore and Legend is a storehouse of wonders for those who love the sea. From Noah’s Ark to Thor Heyerdahl’s raft, from Atlantis to the Northwest Passage, author Peter Jeans scours the ages and the seven seas for fanciful, inspiring, and bizarre tales of sea monsters, ghost ships, lost continents, castaways, pirates, explorers, superstitions, and customs. Discover the surprising truths behind:
This is a book you can open anywhere to savor for a few minutes or an afternoon. But be careful: it's easy to lose track of time at sea. |
From inside the book
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... Cape Horn ◇ The Cape Horners ◇ On the Spanish Main ◇ Prize Money ◇ First Rate ◇ Of Knots and Logs ◇ Scurvy ◇ Deep-Sea Diving ◇ Sea Chanties xi 13 30 43 64 85 95 104 8. The Captain and His Ship Ship Types ◇ The Contents.
... Cape Cod Monster ◇ Cape São Roque Monster ◇ Halifax Monster ◇ Whaler Daphne's Monster ◇ Nahant Beach Monster ◇ Jonah and the Whale ◇ Orcs, Whales, and Leviathan ◇ The Bunyip of the Billabongs 134 161 176 192 206 214 227 246 254 ...
... Cape Horn; and why sailors sang sea chanties, together with the words of some of them. Chapters 8 and 9 focus on some of the more notable ship types (the clipper ships, for example, and the windjammers), as well as on a handful of some ...
... Cape Horn in the dead of winter—a place more accurately known by seamen as Cape Stiff— or a cyclone in the Pacific or the Indian Ocean is driving you onto a rock-fanged lee shore, you are going to call on every prayer and superstitious ...
Contents
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3 Legendary Voyages | 43 |
4 Sea Quests of Old | 64 |
5 Maritime History | 85 |
6 Nautical Custom | 95 |
7 Life at Sea | 104 |
12 Navigable Waters | 206 |
13 Castaways and Survivors | 214 |
14 At Odds with the Law | 227 |
15 Sea Fancies | 246 |
16 Myth and Mystery | 254 |
17 Sea Monsters | 276 |
18 Wraiths of the Sea | 295 |
19 Superstition and Belief | 304 |
8 The Captain and His Ship | 134 |
9 A Murmuring of Men | 161 |
10 Big Ships and Battles | 176 |
11 Death and Disaster | 192 |
Sources and Notes | 329 |
Select Bibliography | 350 |
Index | 362 |