Sailor Song

Author : Ken Kesey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140139974
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailor Song written by Ken Kesey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark and cosmic romp. The town and its denizens—colorful refugees from the Lower Forty-Eight and DEAPs (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples)—are seduced and besieged by a Hollywood crew, come to film the classic children's book The Sea Lion. The ensuing turf war escalates into a struggle for the soul of the town as the novel spins and swirls toward a harrowing climax. Writing with a spectacular range of language and style, Kesey has given us a unique and powerful novel about America.

Author : Gerry Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712353700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailor Song written by Gerry Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current modern revival of sea shanties, and seeks to celebrate and to explore the historical, musical and social history of the traditional sea song through 40 beautiful, mournful, haunting and uplifting shanties. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each one alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and non-fictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig. Where appropriate, a direct digital link is made to a shanty recording in the British Library Sound Archive.

Author : Karen Dolby
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1789293774
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Shanties written by Karen Dolby and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Sailor-songs written by John Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivan Walton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814329979
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Windjammers written by Ivan Walton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.

Author : Nancy Jewell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395825112
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailor Song written by Nancy Jewell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother sings her child a song that describes how a sailor makes his way home from the sea to his family.

Author : Joanna C. Colcord
Publisher : Oak Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783235144
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of American Sailormen written by Joanna C. Colcord and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1964-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the old days when American sailing ships still plowed the seas, it was the custom of their sailors to enliven both their work and their leisure time with song. The songs they used were not, generally speaking, those current and popular ashore at the same period, but were traditional compositions of unknown date and authorship, growing as all folk-song does out of the needs and experiences of men. These songs of the sea have in every line of their verses and every bar of their music the distinctive flavor of seafaring. They are of equal interest to students of folk-lore and to those who love the memory of old days spent on blue water; and it is with both in mind that this work has been undertaken.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Shanties and Sailor's Songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Saxby
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771380225
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Was an Old Sailor written by Claire Saxby and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this nautical update on the familiar childhood rhyme "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," an old sailor swallows a krill, which makes him ill, so he swallows a jellyfish to catch the krill, and a feeding frenzy begins! Young readers will love the cumulative rhyme, and grown-ups will appreciate the fresh take on an old favorite.

Author : John Patrick Shanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailor's Song written by John Patrick Shanley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: SAILOR'S SONG is an extravagant romantic seaside story decorated with dance. In the tradition of Gene Kelly and Eugene O'Neill, who should have worked together but never did, this stylistically daring love story gives us a cynical man an