Sailor Song
Title | Sailor Song PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Kesey |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 545 |
Release | 1993-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0140139974 |
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.
Sailor Song
Title | Sailor Song PDF eBook |
Author | Gerry Smyth |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-06 |
Genre | Sailors |
ISBN | 9780712353700 |
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.
Sailor Song
Title | Sailor Song PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Jewell |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780395825112 |
A mother sings her child a song that describes how a sailor makes his way home from the sea to his family.
Sailor's Song
Title | Sailor's Song PDF eBook |
Author | John Patrick Shanley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 54 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
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
The Sailor's Tragedy. A New Sea-Song. Also The Dandy Frill. Jamie Frae Dundee. The Kings Anthem. - Falkirk 1823
Title | The Sailor's Tragedy. A New Sea-Song. Also The Dandy Frill. Jamie Frae Dundee. The Kings Anthem. - Falkirk 1823 PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1823 |
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Sea Shanties
Title | Sea Shanties PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Dolby |
Publisher | Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2021-09-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789293774 |
A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
Real Sailor-songs
Title | Real Sailor-songs PDF eBook |
Author | John Ashton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
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