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.



9780773574199


Shipwrecks--History.--Newfoundland and Labrador


Electronic Books.

G525 / .O987 1999