Author: Ken Kesey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780552995672
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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
Author: Ken Kesey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780552995672
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780552995672
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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
Author: Gerry Smyth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712353700
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712353700
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Windjammers
Author: Ivan Walton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.
Sailor's Song
Author: John Patrick Shanley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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
Sea Shanties
Author: Karen Dolby
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789293774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789293774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
Sea Shanties and Sailor's Songs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Songs of American Sailormen
Author: Joanna C. Colcord
Publisher: Oak Publications
ISBN: 1783235144
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the old days when American sailing ships still plowed the seas, it was the custom of their sailors to enliven both their work and their leisure time with song. The songs they used were not, generally speaking, those current and popular ashore at the same period, but were traditional compositions of unknown date and authorship, growing as all folk-song does out of the needs and experiences of men. These songs of the sea have in every line of their verses and every bar of their music the distinctive flavor of seafaring. They are of equal interest to students of folk-lore and to those who love the memory of old days spent on blue water; and it is with both in mind that this work has been undertaken.
Publisher: Oak Publications
ISBN: 1783235144
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the old days when American sailing ships still plowed the seas, it was the custom of their sailors to enliven both their work and their leisure time with song. The songs they used were not, generally speaking, those current and popular ashore at the same period, but were traditional compositions of unknown date and authorship, growing as all folk-song does out of the needs and experiences of men. These songs of the sea have in every line of their verses and every bar of their music the distinctive flavor of seafaring. They are of equal interest to students of folk-lore and to those who love the memory of old days spent on blue water; and it is with both in mind that this work has been undertaken.
Songs for Sailors
Author: William Cox Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Songs for Sailors
Author: John Liptrot Hatton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea songs
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea songs
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Songs of the Sea & Sailors' Chanteys
Author: Robert Frothingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description