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Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 /
"There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a nation'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."--...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa [Ont.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press for Carleton University,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Carleton library series ;
189. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 The Casting Away of the Delight (1583)
- 2 The Shipwreck of Father Charles Lalemant, Philibert Noyrot, and Others, Off Cape Breton (1629)
- 3 Shipwreck and Distress Suffer'd Near the Coast of Newfoundland: The Anne (1704)
- 4 Account of A Wonderful Escape From the Effects of a Storm in a Journey Over the Frozen Sea in North America (1782)
- 5 Vessels in the Service of the Moravian Mission on the Coast of Labrador, and Some Shipwrecks (1770-1877)
- 6 Loss of His Majesty's Packet, the Lady Hobart (1803)7 Extreme Personal Sufferings: The Rebecca (1816)
- 8 The H.M.S. Drake (1822)
- 9 Two Wrecks on the Petit Nord: The Belle-Julie and the Nathalie (1826)
- 10 Shipwreck and Sufferings of the Crew and Passengers of the Brig Neptune (1830)
- 11 A Newfoundland Missionary's Journal: The Despatch and Others (1835)
- 12 The Loss of the Barque Marshal M'Donald, Off Newfoundland (1835)
- 13 The Passage of the Pique Across the Atlantic (1835)
- 14 Awful Shipwreck: The Francis Spaight (1836)
- 15 Destruction of the Ocean Steamer Arctic, by Collision with the Vesta (1854)16 That Terrible Day (1892): The Reason
- 17 My First Shipwreck: The Corisande (1893)
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
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- S
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- U-V
- W-Z