Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community

Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community
ISBN-10
149392642X
ISBN-13
9781493926428
Category
Social Science
Pages
243
Language
English
Published
2015-05-25
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Martin Gibbs, Brad Duncan

Description

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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