Folklore and the Sea

Name: Yo, Ho, Me Hearty
Item: Folklore and the Sea
Rating: 5
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by Horace P. Beck

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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0785811192

ISBN13:9780785811190

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:Booksales

Length:464 Pages

Weight:2.32 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 7.1" x 9.6"

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Shipwrecks Non-Fiction Contemporary Fairy Tales Fiction Folklore History History & Criticism Literary Literary Criticism

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Yo, Ho, Me Hearty

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago

This is a book devoted to the study of nautical folklore. It gives such things as superstitions, colorful tales, ship naming customs, songs and the like and much of the folklore of the sailors life. It is told by an author who appears in his photo like and has the personality of, exactly the person who should be dealing with the subject, a retired old salt at a seaside inn and so on. If he ever actually does tell stories at an inn, I would not find it odd. It is a great book and one which can be read over and over. It provides splendid entertainment as well as interesting knowledge in a warmhearted manner.