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Survive the Savage Sea

by (author) Robert Parsons

Publisher
Creative Book Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781895387964
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Shipwrecks have been a fact of life and death as long as men have sailed the oceans. The marine disasters that have occurred around Newfoundland's shores since John Cabot's time have been many; just how many may never be known. Recently, the late historian Keith Matthews and Captain Joe Prim estimated 10,000 to 15,000 vessels have been lost on or near Newfoundland and Labrador. Professor Thomas Nemec has focused on one area, the southern end of the Avalon Peninsula, and documented more than three hundred shipwrecks in that location.

About the author

Robert Parsons has been researching and publishing books about Atlantic Canada’s ships and wrecks for over two decades. In addition to more than 20 books, his articles and stories have appeared in local and national publications. He has appeared on national TV on the History Channel’s Disasters of the Century and Global TV’s Legends and Lore of the North Atlantic. His recent books published by Pottersfield Press include Shipwrecks of New Brunswick; The Edge of Yesterday: Sea Disasters of Nova Scotia; Wrecked and Ruined; and Ocean of Storms, Sea of Disaster. His website is www.atlanticwrecks.com

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