Stan Hugill's SAILORTOWN is a fascinating book on the evolution of working waterfront districts around the world cattering to the sailor's needs and aspirations, not to mention his more basic desires. It's not a songbook, although there are interesting fragments of songs to preface chapters and illustrate points. The graphics as penned by Hugill are wonderful. The book is long out of publication, unfortunately, but can be occasionally found on the used book websites.

If you enjoy this kind of book you might also enjoy the several "sailortown" books that C. Fox Smith wrote in the 1920's.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble