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

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

Baehre, Rainer

Paperback

Series: Carleton Library, Book 189

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ISBN10: 0886293197
ISBN13: 9780886293192
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Oct 25 1999
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.75
Language: English

Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundland.

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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