Sable Island Shipwrecks
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2001
- Category
- History
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551090962
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
Over 300 ships have gone down on Sable Island. The first known wreck was in 1583. This best selling book tells the stories of disaster, danger, rescue and survival.
About the author
Lyall Campbell, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, holds BA and MA degrees in history from Dalhousie University, and a Bachelor of Library Science degree from the University of Toronto. His Sable Island research began more than thirty years ago with his Master's thesis, a history of Sable Island before Confederation, and he is the ahtor of a popular survey of Sable Island, Sable Island, Fatal and Fertile Crescent. Campbell lives in Edmonton, Alberta, where he works as a writer and a freelance editor.