Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community (When the Land Meets the Sea)
Duncan, Brad, Gibbs, Martin
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Hardcover. Series: When the Land Meets the Sea. Num Pages: 243 pages, 45 black & white illustrations, 63 colour illustrations, 15 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: 1MBFS; 3JH; HBTB; HBTM; JFC; WGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 245 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781493926411
SKU
V9781493926411
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Duncan, Brad, Gibbs, Martin
Dr. Brad Duncan is the State Maritime Archaeologist responsible for the Maritime Heritage Program at NSW Heritage Branch, Parramatta Australia. He specialises in maritime cultural landscapes, historic maritime infrastructure studies, and fishing and defence landscapes. His current research projects include regional interpretation of the maritime cultural landscapes of coastal and inland waterways, the archaeology of shipbreaking and adaptive reuse of ... Read more
Reviews for Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community (When the Land Meets the Sea)
“Useful for anyone who identifies with the younger generation of maritime archaeologists, this volume simply refutes the atheoretical stance that largely permeated the discipline in the past. … This book remains useful for thinking about how shipping mishaps affected people and what these events meant in short- and long-term perspectives. This text ultimately demonstrates that the concept of shipping mishaps ... Read more