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."--...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Baehre, Rainer, 1949-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ottawa [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press for Carleton University, ©1999.
Collection:Carleton library series ; 189.
Sujets:
Shipwrecks > Newfoundland and Labrador > History.
Naufrages > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
FICTION > Action & Adventure.
Shipwrecks.
Naufrages > Canada > Terre-Neuve (Canada) > Histoire.
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Electronic books.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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."--Jacket
Description matérielle:1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-380) and index.
ISBN:9780773574199
0773574190
ISSN:0576-7784 ;

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