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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... Poseidon ◇ Amphitrite ◇ Aphrodite ◇ Portunus ◇ Castor and Pollux ◇ Nereus ◇ Hero and Leander ◇ Scylla and Charybdis ◇ Manannan, Celtic Sea God 2. Fabled Lands Pillars of Hercules ◇ Colossus of Rhodes ◇ Ultima Thule ◇ The ...
... Poseidon or Neptune, this being the reason ships are referred to as “she” or “her.” It was also once a tradition not to use a name ending in -a, with the Lusitania often quoted as the best example of the inevitably bad effects of this ...
... Poseidon. The introduction offlags and bunting on board ship probably came about because of the widespread use of flowers at funerals ashore; sailors today are reluctant to have real flowers of any kind on board. The ancient importance ...
... Poseidon (see The Odyssey, chapter 4), and he certainly did not want to arouse the wrath of that often choleric and cross-grained god of the deeps. Thus when our ancient mariner ventured out onto the heaving main he took every ...
... some three thousand of them, one of whom was Doris, mother ofAmphitrite (see below), who in turn was wife to Poseidon (see below), and another of whom was Styx, goddess of the River Styx in Hades. 20 Seafaring Lore & Legend Oceanus.
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 |