This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories, documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions within the community, ...
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This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories, documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions within the community, negotiating its way between its roles as shipwreck saviours and salvors.
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Add this copy of Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a to cart. $60.65, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2016 by Springer.
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New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 243 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Tables, black & white. When the Land Meets the Sea.
Add this copy of Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a to cart. $87.09, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Springer.
Add this copy of Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a to cart. $55.63, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Springer.
Add this copy of Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a to cart. $60.65, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc..
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New. Print on demand Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color. When the Land Meets the Sea . XV, 243 p. 108 illus., 63 illus. in color. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
