Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893
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Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893
（Carleton library series, 189）
McGill-Queen's University Press for Carleton University, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-380) and index
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内容説明
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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