From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea goddess Sedna, and the long-haired rusalki or Russian lore, among other legendary mermaids. As she tells their stories, she also expresses a love of the mermaid that surely no sea-bound sailor could ever match.
Grounded in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and intellectual rigor, A Mermaid's Tale also draws on literature, poetry, and mythology for its insights. It is a book filled with depth and detail as it describes Adam's swim through the ocean of her own life in search of the unusual, the beautiful, and the perfectly extraordinary.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 398.21
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781553653776 9781926812410
- LCCN
- GR910
- LCCN Item number
- A32 2009eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (192 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224948 (OCoLC)659391959 (CaOOCEL)434663
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- A Personal S earch for Love and Lore 2
- A Personal S earch for Love and Lore 3
- Celadon Seas 7
- A Tail in the Tub 7
- Sirens Song 7
- You Might Be a Selkie 7
- Yemaya on the Beach 7
- Sednas Sea 7
- River of Seduction 7
- Rusalki Revelations 7
- Contents 7
- Celadon 10
- S e a S 10
- A Tail 30
- Sirens 54
- S o n g 54
- You Might 78
- Yemaya 110
- Sednas 128
- S e a 128
- River 148
- Rusalki 170
- R e v e l a t i o n S 170
- Notes 190
- Acknowledgments 195
- Illustration Credits 197
- Index 198
