Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

Gorgeous art. The text is a mix of academese and general interest history and a curated shanty collection. (No Wellerman, sorry, but yes Blow the Man Down and Drunken Sailor)

edited to add I was hoping for more crudeness, the author kept talking about how unprintable some verses and versions were and now I gotta hunt down the dirt myself???

#bookclub4m