Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 / edited by Rainer K. Baehre.
Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 / edited by Rainer K. Baehre.
Publication Date
:
1999
Publication Information
:
Montreal, Que. : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press,
Volume
:
#189
Physical Description
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392 p. : ill.
Subject Term
:
Shipwrecks -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.
Shipwrecks -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Series
:
THE CARLETON LIBRARY ;
CARLETON LIBRARY ;
Additional Contributors
:
Baehre, Rainer, 1949-
Summary
:
There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundland. Travellers from many walks of life - explorers and missionaries, traders, fishers and mariners, Native Peoples, aristocrats and immigrants - have left rare and fascinating first-hand accounts of such disasters. Their narratives span four centuries and touch many historical sub-themes such as the appeal of religion in times of crisis, gender roles, and the ocean-as-workplace. Apart from its obvious scholarly appeal, this collection evokes psychic responses to calamity and brushes with death, perhaps the most universal experience of all.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780886293192
9780886293581
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