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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... miles long and 11⁄2 miles wide. Leander was a youth who lived in Abydos (also Abydus), a town on the Asian shore, while Hero was a priestess of Aphrodite (see above) in the town ofSestus (Sestos) on the European side of the strait ...
... miles wide separating Italy and Sicily. On the other side of the strait is Charybdis, the whirlpool of legendary fame. Scylla the sea monster (Latin, from Greek skulla, “she who rends”) had once been a beautiful nymph much loved by ...
... miles away, on the northern coast ofAfrica in present-day Morocco, where now stands the fortress of Ceuta. These two “rocks”—Gibraltar and Mount Hacho, commonly known as the Rock of Ceuta—are the famous Pillars of Hercules. Legend tells ...
... miles wide where the explorer will meet ice (Davis Strait springs to mind). Go farther, and you will see on the horizon a great continental land mass, where there is a large bay and more islands. Ashe writes that “Plutarch's bay could ...
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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 |