This book is a carefully curated collection of 1,900 of the most significant shipwrecks and marine disasters that have occurred in British Columbia waters. Each wreck has been carefully researched and the story of each event is recounted as a short vignette. The assembled detailed accounts are an easy-to-read, easy-to-access book that will please the casual reader as well as the most dedicated nautical historian. The waters of British Columbia are dangerous - and have claimed thousands of vessels and thousands of lives over the last 250 years. In these carefully- researched accounts the author has separated fact from myth to tell the true stories of marine wrecks and disasters and the people involved.
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Shipwreck!: A Chronicle of Marine Accidents & Disasters in British Columbia
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This book is a carefully curated collection of 1,900 of the most significant shipwrecks and marine disasters that have occurred in British Columbia waters. Each wreck has been carefully researched and the story of each event is recounted as a short vignette. The assembled detailed accounts are an easy-to-read, easy-to-access book that will please the casual reader as well as the most dedicated nautical historian. The waters of British Columbia are dangerous - and have claimed thousands of vessels and thousands of lives over the last 250 years. In these carefully- researched accounts the author has separated fact from myth to tell the true stories of marine wrecks and disasters and the people involved.
Paperback
$41.00