SERPENT SIREN MAELSTROM AND MYTH (SEA STORIES/ FOLKTALES)

The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. This collection features the sea stories, myths and folktales from cultures around the world – Native American, Caribbean, Polynesian, Persian, Indian, Scandinavian and European. The 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 British Library.