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Folklore and the Sea

Author : Horace Beck
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0785811192

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Horace Beck, a former professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, has been gathering the sea's folklore for 70 years in Europe, North America, and the West Indies. This collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories, both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. Library Journal called Folklore and the Sea "a browser's delight as well as a researcher's gold mine."

Folklore and the Sea

Author : Horace Palmer Beck
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UCSC:32106019325270

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Folklore and the Sea by Horace Palmer Beck Pdf

Horace Beck, a former professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, has been gathering the sea's folklore for 70 years in Europe, North America, and the West Indies. This collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories, both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. Library Journal called Folklore and the Sea "a browser's delight as well as a researcher's gold mine."

From Sea to Shining Sea

Author : Amy L. Cohn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0590428683

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From Sea to Shining Sea by Amy L. Cohn Pdf

A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.

Folklore of the Sea

Author : Margaret Baker
Publisher : Newton Abbot [Eng.] ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ocean
ISBN : UCSC:32106016576156

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Folklore of the Sea by Margaret Baker Pdf

This book contains myths, legends, superstitions and other tales of sailing. It includes topics such as ghosts, sea monsters, customs and history.

Tales of the Sea

Author : Maggie Chiang
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781797208220

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Let this collection of seafaring folktales sweep you away with gorgeous illustrations and captivating stories. A secret path leads across the water to a dragon's kingdom. A mermaid avenges the death of a human girl. A monstrous squid guards the most beautiful pearl in the world. This collection of traditional folktales captures the mysterious and magical power of the ocean. As you sail uncharted waters from Norway to New Zealand and Ghana to Korea, you'll encounter underwater palaces, brave seafarers, and monsters of the deep. Each story is paired with luminous contemporary art. With creamy paper, a ribbon marker, and a cover adorned with shimmering foil, this handsome hardcover is truly a book to treasure. POPULAR SERIES: The Tales series gives new life to traditional stories. Celebrating the richness of folklore around the world, and featuring the work of beloved contemporary illustrators, these books are beloved by adults and teens alike. GORGEOUS SPECIAL EDITION: A mesmerizing full-page illustration brings each story alive, while creamy paper, a ribbon marker, and a foil-stamped cover offer a deluxe reading experience. This keepsake edition is perfect for gifting and display. CELEBRATING DIVERSITY: Featuring stories from around the world, this collection honors the dazzling diversity of different folk traditions—as well as the common threads that weave them all together. PERFECT FOR OCEAN LOVERS: From whales to giant squids, and from selkies to mermaids, there's something here for anyone who feels the magic of the sea. Perfect for: • Fans of fairy tales and folklore • Ocean lovers • Swimmers, divers, fishers, and beach combers • Illustration and art lovers • Adults and teens • Collectors of illustrated classics • Fans of the illustrator Maggie Chiang

The Folklore of Maine

Author : Horace P. Beck
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789124125

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The Folklore of Maine by Horace P. Beck Pdf

“THIS is not a scholarly book in the pedantic sense nor is it intended to be one. Neither is it a complete collection of Maine folklore. Rather, it is a selection of tales, beliefs, superstitions, songs, and customs of people of English-speaking stock in Maine. It is a book that attempts to give illustrations of most of the major aspects of folklore that are, or have been within the last twenty years, extant in the state.”—Horace P. Beck, Introduction “There is no dearth of folklore in the little state of Maine. This book has placed some important examples of folklore into their historical contexts. A diversified sampling is given and we are surprised to learn how much of folklore is a disguise or an exaggeration of the real past.”—Kirkus Review

Salt On Your Tongue

Author : Charlotte Runcie
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786891204

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Salt On Your Tongue by Charlotte Runcie Pdf

'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It’s an ode to our oceans – to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beachcombers, swimmers, seabirds and mermaids. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.

Song of the Sea

Author : Ann Spencer
Publisher : Tundra Books (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887764878

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A collection of stories of pirates and mermaids, monsters and gods; rhymes, sayings, chanteys, and superstitions from all over the world.

Treasury of Folklore - Seas and Rivers

Author : Dee Dee Chainey,Willow Winsham
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849946599

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Treasury of Folklore - Seas and Rivers by Dee Dee Chainey,Willow Winsham Pdf

Enthralling tales of the sea, rivers and lakes from around the globe. Folklore of the seas and rivers has a resonance in cultures all over the world. Watery hopes, fears and dreams are shared by all peoples where rivers flow and waves crash. This fascinating book covers English sailor superstitions and shape-shifting pink dolphins of the Amazon, Scylla and Charybdis, the many guises of Mami Wata, the tale of the Yoruba River spirit, the water horses of the Scottish lochs, the infamous mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, and much more. Accompanied by stunning woodcut illustrations, popular authors Dee Dee Chainey and Willow Winsham explore the deep history and enduring significance of water folklore the world over, from mermaids, selkies and sirens to ghostly ships and the fountains of youth. With this book, Folklore Thursday aims to encourage a sense of belonging across all cultures by showing how much we all have in common.

From Granite to Sea

Author : Alex Langstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738765783

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This book presents the first ever comprehensive focus on the folklore of eastern Cornwall, an ancient land steeped in legend and myth. It is populated by piskies, giants, and conjurors as well as the Devil's Dandy Dogs and the demonic specter of Tregeagle. Alex Langstone's ground-breaking study shares old tales of witches, charmers, supernatural encounters, and curious customs.

A Mermaid's Tale

Author : Amanda Adams
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781926812410

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From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea goddess Sedna, and the long-haired rusalki or Russian lore, among other legendary mermaids. As she tells their stories, she also expresses a love of the mermaid that surely no sea-bound sailor could ever match. Grounded in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and intellectual rigor, A Mermaid's Tale also draws on literature, poetry, and mythology for its insights. It is a book filled with depth and detail as it describes Adam's swim through the ocean of her own life in search of the unusual, the beautiful, and the perfectly extraordinary.

Orkney Folk Tales

Author : Tom Muir
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750955331

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The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.

All the Light We Cannot See

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

The People of the Sea

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781841951072

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David Thomson visited the remote sea coasts of the Scottish Isles and the West of Ireland on journeys in search of the legends of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans. A magical world emerged, in which men are rescued by seals in stormy seas, take seal-women for their wives and have their children suckled by seal-mothers. Mysterious and fascinating, these stories retain their spellbinding charm through Thomson's beautiful prose. The People of the Sea is a timeless and haunting book, rich in rewards and surprises.