Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth
Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
$57.75
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2024
Summary
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems of the world. And the ocean features in every mythological system in history.
To reflect and explore this, Gerry Smyth has gathered together myths and folktales from cultures around the world – Native American, Ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712354196 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0712354190 |
| Author: | Gerry Smyth |
| Publisher: | British Library Publishing |
| Imprint: | British Library Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 858g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Gerry Smyth
Gerry Smyth is an academic, musician, actor and playwright and is Professor of Irish Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of the bestselling Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas, published in 2021.
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