Outrageous Seas: Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters Off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 (Carleton Library Series) - Softcover

Baehre, Rainer K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0886293197 ISBN 13: 9780886293192

Verlag: Carleton University Press,Canada, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Carleton University Press,Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0886293197
• ISBN 13: 9780886293192
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408
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