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Outrageous Seas: Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters Off Newfoundland, 1583-1893

By Rainer K. Baehre

Book information

Publisher
Carleton University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0886293588, 9780886293581
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (25694536 bytes)
Series
Carleton Library Series
Pages
408\405
Time added
2016-04-19 08:38:40
Canada;Exploration;First Nations;Founding;Pre-Conf

Description

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.

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