Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 /
edited by Rainer K. Baehre.
- Ottawa : McGill-Queen's University Press for Carleton University, (c)1999.
- 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Carleton library, 189 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.