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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth

Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World

Gerry Smyth

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English
British Library Publishing
05 October 2023
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, Caribbean, Polynesian, Persian, Indian, Scandinavian and European. Just as these stories have been passed down through generations, he brings his own narrative interpretation with additional discussion on their meaning.

Stories are divided into seven sections: Origin Stories; Gods and Humans; Voyages; Lost Places, Imagined Spaces; Weather and Nature; Down to the Sea in Ships; Fabulous Beasts; and embellished with illustrations from the wide-ranging collections of the Library.
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Imprint:   British Library Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9780712354196
ISBN 10:   0712354190
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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