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:
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... North ◇ Poon Lim ◇ Herbert Kabat ◇ John Caldwell ◇ Tropic Island Hell 14. At Odds with the Law Pirates ◇ Buccaneers ◇ Earrings for Cutthroats ◇ Henry Every ◇ William Kidd ◇ Edward Teach (“Blackbeard”) ◇ Anne Bonny ◇ Mary Read ...
... North American coast on a number of occasions some five hundred years before Columbus ventured into American waters, there is still astonishing resistance to this apparently heretical notion (see Vinland USA, chapter 4). It is as if all ...
... North Borneo, finds salvation by crouching in a feed trough until the waters dry out; the Arapaho nation in North America tell of their god Rock being preserved in a vessel made from spiders' webs and fungi; while the ancestors of the ...
... North American peoples regard the rainbow as a ladder by which they might make contact with the realms of the departed spirits of their dead. The Bakongo people of central Africa look upon the rainbow as one of the manifestations of the ...
... North Africa who in A.D. 711 invaded and conquered Spain.) COLOSSUS. OF. RHODES. “He doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, JULIUS CAESAR Shakespeare's Colossus (Latin, from the Greek kolossos, huge, enormous) ...
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 |