Roy Palmer 

 

Boxing the Compass is a revised and updated edition of Roy Palmer's classic work, The Oxford Book of Sea Songs, first published in 1986 and unavailable for many years.

Drawn from a variety of sources, including street ballads, broadsides, manuscripts and the oral tradition, the collection ranges from the reign of Elizabeth l to the end of the Twentieth Century and includes many fine songs that do not appear in print anywhere else.

Out in paperback for the first time, this edition includes additional new songs and has been brought up to date by Roy Palmer with that combination of an academic's discipline and a singer's enthusiasm, that make his books so rewarding.

 

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