From Homer's Odyssey to Pirates of the Caribbean, Mermaids have fascinated popular culture for centuries. Among the Mermaids is an enchanting collection of classic stories, facts, and tales of mermaids from around the world that will thrill every lover of this romanticized mythological creature. Compiled by Book of the Bizarre author and Magical Creature devotee Varla Ventura, Among the Mermaids includes turn of the century tales of merfolk from Bret Harte, T. Crofton Croker, and W.B. Yeats, along with tantalizing trivia, facts, first-hand accounts, and speculations about mermaids in popular culture. Some facts about the fluid and the fair from the book: Many people believe today that early explorer sightings of mermaids were manatees. (Scurvy + many days away from your lady = a blubbery creature looking supple and bodacious.)Blackbeard, the fierce and terrible pirate, was afraid of his crew being lured into a watery grave by mermaids, so he ordered his ships to avoid certain areas reputed to have a high number of mermaid sightings.Since 2009, the town of Kiryat Yam, Israel has offered a prize of $1 million dollars to anyone who can prove the mermaid off their coast is real. The prize remains unclaimed.
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I received this book for free through a GoodReads giveaway.
This is a cute little book about mermaids that brings back your inner child. I entered the giveaway because I was obsessed with Disney's A Little Mermaid growing up. I still picture all mermaids as the super friendly ones who collect random weird human things and randomly burst into song. But this book provides several short stories about the mermaids of legend that were also the mysterious “the sirens of the sea”, who lured men in and had a somewhat devilish sex appeal.
I enjoyed reading the stories and would recommend this book to people who also had/have a slight obsession with mermaids and would like to learn about them from a different perspective.
