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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... chapter, with—I am sure—varying degrees of success. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 deal with ancient heroes, voyages, events, and places, some of them legendary (the Argonauts, for example), and others historical (the story ofMoby Dick, for ...
... chapter 14 on piracy and some selected exponents of that art (such as William Kidd and Anne Bonny); and in chapter 15 the reader is offered a brief insight into some of the beliefs still held by modern-day seafarers: mermaids, for ...
... (chapter 16), the Mary Celeste (16), Monster Kraken (17), Scylla and Charybdis (1), Mermaids (15), The Odyssey (4), The Argonauts (4), Davy Jones's Locker (19), Fabled Atlantis (16), The Bermuda Triangle (16), Jonah and the Whale (17) ...
... chapter 17). Chapter 17, Sea Monsters, includes some of the more famous (or infamous) monsters and sea serpents that have galvanized the imagination of sailors and fishermen and which in the process have delivered healthy circulation ...
... chapter 19); nowadays we use wine or champagne. Often the vessel was given a female name in token of its becoming a bride to Poseidon or Neptune, this being the reason ships are referred to as “she” or “her.” It was also once a ...
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 |