Peter Jeans
McGraw-Hill Education
e druk, 2007
9780071486569
Seafaring Lore and Legend
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Paperback, blz.
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McGraw-Hill Education |
e druk, 2007
ISBN13: 9780071486569
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Levertijd ongeveer 10 werkdagen
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"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 ScaleFlogging a dead horse and other oddities of nautical customSea chanties, scurvy, and the hardships of life at seaInfamous and noteworthy sea captains and their shipsFamous wrecks and mutiniesMermaids, sirens, and sea nymphsNautical superstitions such as the albatross and Fiddler’s GreenAnd 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.
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<h4>Acknowledgments</h4><h4>Note to the Reader</h4><h4>Introduction</h4><h3>1. In the Beginning</h3><h4>Great Floods</h4><h4>Moses and the Red Sea</h4><h4>The Rainbow</h4><h4>Maui, Creator of New Zealand</h4><h4>Oceanus</h4><h4>King Neptune</h4><h4>Poseidon</h4><h4>Amphitrite</h4><h4>Aphrodite</h4><h4>Portunus</h4><h4>Castor and Pollux</h4><h4>Nereus</h4><h4>Hero and Leander</h4><h4>Scylla and Charybdis</h4><h4>Manannan, Celtic Sea God</h4><h3>2. Fabled Lands</h3><h4>Pillars of Hercules</h4><h4>Colossus of Rhodes</h4><h4>Ultima Thule</h4><h4>The Hesperides</h4><h4>Tarshish</h4><h4>Taprobane</h4><h4>Distant Ophir</h4><h4>Magnetic Islands</h4><h4>Hy Brasil</h4><h4>Island of Ogygia</h4><h4>Island of Delos</h4><h4>Lemuria, Lost Continent</h4><h4>Lost Land of Lyonesse</h4><h3>3. Legendary Voyages</h3><h4>Sindbad the Sailor</h4><h4>Gulliver’s Travels</h4><h4>Hanno the Navigator</h4><h4>Prince Madoc of Wales</h4><h4>Voyages of Saint Brendan</h4><h4>Voyages of Gil Eannes</h4><h4>Polynesian Seafarers</h4><h4>The Kon-Tiki Expedition</h4><h3>4. Sea Quests of Old</h3><h4>The Argosy</h4><h4>The Argonauts</h4><h4>The Odyssey</h4><h4>Vinland USA</h4><h4>The Northwest Passage</h4><h4>The Great South Land</h4><h4>Moby Dick</h4><h3>5. Maritime History</h3><h4>The British Royal Navy<h4>Naval Salutes</h4><h4>Plimsoll Line</h4><h4>Lloyd’s of London</h4><h4>P&O Shipping Line</h4><h4>Beaufort Wind Scale</h4><h3>6. Nautical Custom</h3><h4>The Bucentaur</h4><h4>Crossing the Line</h4><h4>To Flog a Dead Horse</h4><h4>The Getting of Grog</h4><h4>Traveling POSH</h4><h3>7. Life at Sea</h3><h4>Ocean Waves</h4><h4>Trade Winds</h4><h4>The Sargasso Sea</h4><h4>The Seven Seas</h4><h4>Cape Horn</h4><h4>The Cape Horners</h4><h4>On the Spanish Main</h4><h4>Prize Money</h4><h4>First Rate</h4><h4>Of Knots and Logs</h4><h4>Scurvy</h4><h4>Deep-Sea Diving</h4><h4>Sea Chanties</h4><h3>8. The Captain and His Ship</h3><h4>Ship Types</h4><h4>The Age of Sail</h4><h4>The Clipper Ships</h4><h4>The Windjammers</h4><h4>Christopher Columbus</h4><h4>Lord Anson</h4><h4>Captain James Cook</h4><h4>John Paul Jones</h4><h4>Lord Nelson</h4><h3>9. A Murmuring of Men</h3><h4>The Batavia Wreck and Mutiny<h4>HMS Bounty Mutiny</h4><h4>HMS Hermione Mutiny</h4><h4>Spithead and the Nore Mutiny</h4><h4>The Press Gang</h4><h3>10. Big Ships and Battles</h3><h4>RMS Titanic</h4><h4>HMS Ark Royal</h4><h4>RMS Queen Mary</h4><h4>HMS Dreadnought</h4><h4>The Spanish Armada</h4><h4>The Battle of Copenhagen</h4><h4>The Battle of Jutland</h4><h4>The Sinking of HMAS Sydney</h4><h3>11. Death and Disaster</h3><h4>USS Scorpion</h4><h4>HMS Royal George</h4><h4>The Gilt Dragon</h4><h4>HMS Birkenhead</h4><h4>RMS Lusitania</h4><h4>SS Waratah</h4><h4>The Whaler Essex</h4><h4>The William Brown</h4><h4>Wrecker’s Coast</h4><h3>12. Navigable Waters</h3><h4>The Amazon River</h4><h4>The Panama Canal</h4><h4>The Suez Canal</h4><h3>13. Castaways and Survivors</h3><h4>Robinson Crusoe</h4><h4>Icebound by North</h4><h4>Poon Lim</h4><h4>Herbert Kabat</h4><h4>John Caldwell</h4><h4>Tropic Island Hell</h4><h3>14. At Odds with the Law</h3><h4>Pirates</h4><h4>Buccaneers</h4><h4>Earrings for Cutthroats</h4><h4>Henry Every</h4><h4>William Kidd</h4><h4>Edward Teach (“Blackbeard”)</h4><h4>Anne Bonny</h4><h4>Mary Read</h4><h3>15. Sea Fancies</h3><h4>Mermaids</h4><h4>Sirens</h4><h4>The Lorelei</h4><h4>Selkies</h4><h4>Halcyon Days</h4><h4>King Canute</h4><h3>16. Myth and Mystery</h3><h4>Fabled Atlantis</h4><h4>The Bermuda Triangle</h4><h4>The Flannan Isles</h4><h4>The Flying Dutchman</h4><h4>The Mary Celeste</h4><h4>The Schooner Jenny</h4><h4>USS Cyclops</h4><h3>17. Sea Monsters</h3><h4>Monster Caddie</h4><h4>Captain M’Quhae’s Monster</h4><h4>Haiphong Monster</h4><h4>Monster Kraken</h4><h4>Loch Ness Monster</h4><h4>Rattray Head Monster</h4><h4>Cape Cod Monster</h4><h4>Cape São Roque Monster</h4><h4>Halifax Monster</h4><h4>Whaler Daphne’s Monster</h4><h4>Nahant Beach Monster</h4><h4>Jonah and the Whale</h4><h4>Orcs, Whales, and Leviathan</h4><h4>The Bunyip of the Billabongs</h4><h3>18. Wraiths of the Sea</h3><h4>Capes of Virginia Phantom</h4><h4>Gulf of Saint Lawrence Ghost Ship</h4><h4>Long Island Sound Ghost Ship</h4><h4>New Haven Ghost Ship</h4><h4>Ghosts of Dead Men</h4><h4>The Vikings of Solway Firth</h4><h4>Phantom Pilots</h4><h3>19. Superstition and Belief</h3><h4>Launching a Ship</h4><h4>Coin Under the Mast</h4><h4>Ships’ Names</h4><h4>Ships’ Figureheads</h4><h4>Departures</h4><h4>The Eyes of Her</h4><h4>Guiding Star</h4><h4>The Lodestone</h4><h4>Unlucky Ships</h4><h4>Women Aboard Ship</h4><h4>Whistling Aboard Ship</h4><h4>Ringing Glass Aboard Ship</h4><h4>Sharks Astern</h4><h4>Ship’s Cat</h4><h4>Coffins Aboard Ship</h4><h4>Flowers Aboard Ship</h4><h4>Flags, Bags, Bells, and Rags</h4><h4>Umbrellas Aboard Ship</h4><h4>The Albatross</h4><h4>Our Flat Earth</h4><h4>Saint Elmo’s Fire</h4><h4>Priests Aboard Ship</h4><h4>Ebb Tide</h4><h4>Wren’s Feather</h4><h4>Death by Drowning</h4><h4>Davy Jones’s Locker</h4><h4>Fiddler’s Green</h4><h4>Sources and Notes</h4><h4>Select Bibliography</h4><h4>Index</h4>