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An old midnight-blue leather book titled Songs of the Sea by Stan Hugill with gilded embossed lettering.

Songs of the Sea

Based on both firsthand experience and historical research, Songs of the Sea surveys the working songs of sailors from the Age of Sail, explaining how different types of shanties coordinated shipboard labour and tracing their origins across British, American, Caribbean, and other maritime traditions.

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Publication date
1977
Author
Stan Hugill
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
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An old burgundy cloth book titled Songs of the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill with gilded embossed lettering.

Songs of the Seven Seas

Drawing on decades as a working shantyman and folklorist, Shanties from the Seven Seas is a large, detailed collection of sea shanties and sailors' songs, presenting lyrics, melodies, variants, and commentary on how the songs were actually sung aboard working ships.

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Publication date
1961
Author
Stan Hugill
Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul
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