大海美丽迷人，但也危险致命。 重要的是，它是不可知且不可驯服的。 讲故事为我们的祖先提供了一种理解自然世界并与之互动的方式，这些故事融入了世界的神话系统。 历史上每一个神话体系都以海洋为特征。
为了反映和探索这一点，格里·史密斯收集了来自世界各地文化的神话和民间故事——美洲原住民、加勒比海、波利尼西亚、波斯、印度、斯堪的纳维亚和欧洲。 正如这些故事代代相传一样，他带来了自己的叙事解释，并对其意义进行了额外的讨论。 故事分为七个部分：起源故事； 诸神与人类； 航程； 失落的地方，想象的空间； 天气和自然； 乘船出海； 神话般的野兽； 并配有图书馆广泛收藏的插图。
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems of the world. And the ocean features in every mythological system in history.
To reflect and explore this, Gerry Smyth has gathered together myths and folktales from cultures around the world – Native American, Caribbean, Polynesian, Persian, Indian, Scandinavian and European. Just as these stories have been passed down through generations, he brings his own narrative interpretation with additional discussion on their meaning. Stories are divided into seven sections: Origin Stories; Gods and Humans; Voyages; Lost Places, Imagined Spaces; Weather and Nature; Down to the Sea in Ships; Fabulous Beasts; and embellished with illustrations from the wide-ranging collections of the Library.
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