INVENTORY #160168
Shanties from the Seven Seas
HUGILL, Stan (comp.)
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Sub title: "Shipboard Work-Songs and Songs Used as Work-Songs From the Great Days of Sail." This definitive book on sailors' work songs also gives us fascinating details of the author's own life eg. regarding Round the Bay of Mexico, "The chorus I give is the one I always sang myself and which I learnt form older Liverpool seamen" (p. 88).
Publication Info
- Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Edition: Reprint. First published 1961
- Date Published: 1984
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: 0710015739
Details
- Condition: Fine
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: Yes
- Jacket Condition: Near fine
- Details:
xviii, [2], 609 p. 24 cm. Music and illustrations. Blue cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket spine a bit faded.