by JOHN LOW

BIBLIOGRAPHY

'The Waterwitch' - sources of information and published versions

  1. Moore, T. Inglis. Poetry in Australia Vol.1: From the Ballads to Brennan, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1964, pp.6-7.
  2. Robson, L. L. “Some Tasmanian Songs”, Australian Tradition Vol.2, No.2, July 1965, pp.3-4.
  3. Tate, Brad. Down & Outback, Woden ACT: Popinjay, 1988, pp.46, 58.

Note: 'The Waterwitch' is not listed in Ron Edwards' 200 Years of Australian Folk Song Index 1788-1988 (Rams Skull Press, Kuranda Qld., 1988), though he has noted it for inclusion in further editions of this invaluable reference work (see Australian Folklore Society Journal No. 13, November 1988).

'The Dreadnaught' / 'The Liverpool Packet' - Sources of information and published versions

  1. Doerflinger, William Main. Shantymen and Shantyboys, 1951.
  2. Haswell, George. Ten Shanties Sung on the Australian Run 1879, Mt. Hawthorn WA: The Antipodes Press, 1992. [Edited with Introduction by Graham Seal.]
  3. Hugill, Stan. Shanties From the Seven Seas, London: 1961.
  4. Hugill, Stan. Shanties and Sailors' Songs, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969.
  5. Palmer, Roy. The Oxford Book Sea Songs, Oxford UK: OUP, 1986.

'The Coast of Peru' & 'New Zealand Whales' - sources of information and published versions

  1. Bailey, Rona & Roth, Herbert. Shanties By the Way: a Selection of New Zealand Popular Songs and Ballads, Christchurch NZ: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967.
  2. Colquhoun, Neil. New Zealand Folksongs: Song of a Young Country, Wellington NZ: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1972.
  3. Colcord, Joanna C. Songs of American Sailormen, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.
  4. Doerflinger, William Main. Shantymen and Shantyboys, 1951.
  5. Fyfe, Frank. “The Pelagic Whalers”, The Maorilander: Journal of the NZ Folklore Society, Summer 1970/Autumn 1971, pp. 2-17.
  6. Fyfe, Frank. “The Cloudy Bay Shorewhalers”, The Maorilander, Summer 1970/Autumn 1971, pp. 18-48.
  7. Fyfe, Frank. “Leebrick's Collector?”, The Maorilander, Winter 1971, pp. 2-15.
  8. Huntington, Gale. Songs the Whalemen Sang, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1964.

Sources of information on the ship Waterwitch and whaling generally in the Southern Oceans.

  1. Mawer, Granville Allen. Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling, St. Leonards NSW, Allen & Unwin, 1999.
  2. Philp, J. E. Whaling Ways of Hobart Town, Hobart: J. Walch & Sons, 1936.
  3. Rickard, L. S. The Whaling Trade of Old New Zealand, Auckland: Minerva, 1965.

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