Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World

by Gerry Smyth

An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea

The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295752319
• ISBN13: 9780295752310
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher