Seafaring Lore and Legend

by Jeans, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780071486569
• ISBN10: 0071486569
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-07
• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Summary

"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: The origins of naval salutes and the Beaufort Scale Flogging a dead horse and other oddities of nautical custom Sea chanties, scurvy, and the hardships of life at sea Infamous and noteworthy sea captains and their ships Famous wrecks and mutinies Mermaids, sirens, and sea nymphs Nautical superstitions such as the albatross and Fiddler's Green And much more This is a book you can open anywhere to savor for a few minutes or an afternoon. But be careful: it's easy to lose track of time at sea.

Author Biography

Peter D. Jeans is the author of Ship to Shore: A Dictionary of Everyday Words and Phrases Derived from the Sea.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Note to the Reader

Introduction

In the Beginning Great Floods Moses and the Red Sea

The Rainbow Maui, Creator of New Zealand Oceanus King Neptune

Poseidon Amphitrite Aphrodite Portunus Castor and Pollux Nereus

Hero and Leander Scylla and Charybdis Manannan, Celtic Sea God

Fabled Lands Pillars of Hercules Colossus of Rhodes Ultima Thule

The Hesperides Tarshish Taprobane Distant Ophir Magnetic Islands Hy

Brasil Island of Ogygia Island of Delos Lemuria

Lost Continent Lost Land of Lyonesse

Legendary Voyages Sindbad the Sailor Gulliver's Travels Hanno the Navigator

Prince Madoc of Wales Voyages of Saint Brendan Voyages of Gil Eannes

Polynesian Seafarers TheKon-Tiki

Expedition

Sea Quests of Old

The Argosy

The Argonauts TheOdyssey Vinland USA

The Northwest Passage

The Great South Land Moby Dick

Maritime History

The British Royal Navy Naval Salutes

Plimsoll Line Lloyd's of London P&O Shipping

Line Beaufort Wind Scale

Nautical Custom TheBucentaur Crossing the Line

To Flog a Dead Horse

The Getting of Grog Traveling POSH

Life at Sea Ocean Waves Trade Winds

The Sargasso Sea

The Seven Seas Cape Horn

The Cape Horners On the Spanish Main Prize Money First Rate Of

Knots and Logs Scurvy Deep-Sea Diving Sea Chanties

The Captain and His Ship Ship Types

The Age of Sail

The Clipper Ships

The Windjammers Christopher Columbus

A Murmuring of Men The Batavia

Wreck and Mutiny HMS

Bounty

Mutiny HMS

Hermione

Mutiny Spithead and the Nore Mutiny

The Press Gang

Big Ships and Battles RMS

Titanic HMS

Ark Royal RMS

Queen Mary HMS

Dreadnought

The Spanish Armada

The Battle of Copenhagen

The Battle of Jutland

The Sinking of HMA

SSydney

Death and Disaster USSScorpion HMS

Royal George The

Gilt Dragon HMS

Birken

head RMS

Lusitania SSWaratah The Whaler

Essex TheWilliam Brown Wrecker's Coast

Navigable Waters

The Amazon River

The Panama Canal

The Suez Canal

Castaways and Survivors

Robinson Crusoe Icebound by North Poon

At Odds with the Law

Pirates Buccaneers Earrings for Cutthroats

Sea Fancies Mermaids Sirens

The Lorelei Selkies Halcyon Days King Canute

Myth and Mystery Fabled Atlantis

The Bermuda Triangle

The Flannan Isles

The Flying Dutchman

The Mary Celeste

The Schooner Jenny USSCyclops

Sea Monsters Monster Caddie Captain M'Quhae's Monster

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