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An open historical maritime songbook on a chart table with notation sheets, brass tools, a decorated flintlock pistol, lantern light, and a ship visible beyond a rain-streaked porthole with reflected notation in the glass.

Indexed now Songs of the Sea

Current pages online: 70, 75, 76, and 144. Wat Wi Doht, Jean François de Nantes, Blow the Man Down, and Rude Boreas.

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

Publication year: 1977
Author: Stan Hugill
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Songs of the Sea

Stan Hugill’s Songs of the Sea is a landmark collection of traditional sea songs and shanties drawn from the working maritime tradition.

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An old burgundy cloth book titled Songs of the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill with gilded embossed lettering.

Publication year: 1961
Author: Stan Hugill
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul

Songs of the Seven Seas

Stan Hugill’s Songs of the Seven Seas is a major reference work gathering shanties and sea songs from a wide range of maritime sources.

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