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Please God send me a wreck [electronic resource] : responses to shipwreck in a 19th century australian community / Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs.

9781493926428 electronic book
149392642X electronic book
9781493926411

New York : Springer, [2015]

©2015

English

1 online resource.

10.1007/978-1-4939-2642-8 doi

G525

910.4/52

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 28, 2015).

When the land meets the sea ; v. 3.

Print version: 9781493926411

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