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Can I read Outrageous Seas : Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters Off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 on EtoBox?
Outrageous Seas : Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters Off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 by Rainer K. Baehre is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Outrageous Seas : Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters Off Newfoundland, 1583-1893 about?
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
Who reads Outrageous Seas : Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters Off Newfoundland, 1583-1893?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rainer K. Baehre
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press for Carleton University
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773574199
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Adventure, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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