Author: Henningsen, Henning
Title: Crossing the Equator. Sailors' Baptism and Other Initiation Rites
Description: Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1961. orig. cloth. 25x17cm,, 321,(24) pp,, Some buckling to rear fixed flyleaf. Somewhat shaken.. Folding chart,24 photoplates. Worn, Some cover stains. Spine rubbed. Good. ¶ University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation. Contents: Admission into the Ranks of the Widely Travelled: Baptism at Sea; Baptism in European Waters; Baptism of Land & Air Travellers; Admission into a New Sphere of Life.

Keywords: Nautical Folklore, Sailors' Baptism, Maritime History, Ethnology, Initiation Rites, , , ,