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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth
Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and...
ISBN: 9780295752310
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Sailor Song
The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes....
ISBN: 9780295747286
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