Author: Ken Kesey
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140139974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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: Penguin
ISBN: 0140139974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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: Penguin
ISBN: 0140139974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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 : Sailors
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 : Sailors
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.
Real Sailor-songs
Author: John Ashton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 : 216
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 : 216
Book Description
A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
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
The Music of the Waters
Author: Laura Alexandrine Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Scarlet and Blue, Or, Songs for Soldiers and Sailors
Author: John Farmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea songs
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea songs
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description