Seafaring Lore and Legend 
Subtitle: A Miscellany of Maritime Myth, Superstition, Fable, and Fact
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780071435437
Subjects: Folklore; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Sailing - General; Sports & Recreation; Transportation; Folklore & Mythology; Sports & Recreation / Boating; Ocean; Ships & Shipbuilding - General; Seafaring life
First sentence: When people first emerged from the long dark night of their savage and brutal lives as predatory hunters and gradually became more or less contemplative beings, increasingly aware of themselves as but a very small part of what seemed to be a very big picture, doubtless the two questions they asked themselves would have been: Where did we come from?