I found this recently at a flea and was quite smitten! Sea stories and accompanying folklore always draw me in. Blair Lent's illustrations (woodcuts? linocuts?) feel old fashioned but mesmerizing.
John Tabor's Ride
Blair Lent 1966
John Tabor has been shipwrecked when along comes the most curious character, a man who looks a hundred years old wearing a "greasy wool sweater and a pair of tarred and tattered trousers." No sooner does he catch a whale than he takes John Tabor on a ride around the world back to his home in Nantucket. This is just the sort of old magical sea chanty kind of book that we would spend Summer afternoons reading.
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