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Shipwreck! Marine Misadventure in Story and Picture from the Treacherous Shores Beyond

Jean-Pierre Andrieux

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Description:This is the story of shipwrecks on Saint Pierre and Miquelon, beginning at 1800. It is a story that brings no satisfaction to anyone, true though it all is. It carried in its recounting a terrible fascination because even today, despite every modern device to warn of disaster ahead, wrecks are still taking place. As long as men go down to the sea in ships they will encounter calamities that are the work of nature and beyond the power or ingenuity of man to overcome. Fog, snow, desperate cold, and hurricanes sneer at man's best efforts to make safe the shores of these islands. In this book is told, in story and picture, of some of the wrecks that have made Saint Pierre and Miquelon a graveyard of ships for going on four centuries. - from IntroductionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shipwreck! Marine Misadventure in Story and Picture from the Treacherous Shores Beyond. To get started finding Shipwreck! Marine Misadventure in Story and Picture from the Treacherous Shores Beyond, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 116

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: W. F. Rannie

Release: 1975

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Description: This is the story of shipwrecks on Saint Pierre and Miquelon, beginning at 1800. It is a story that brings no satisfaction to anyone, true though it all is. It carried in its recounting a terrible fascination because even today, despite every modern device to warn of disaster ahead, wrecks are still taking place. As long as men go down to the sea in ships they will encounter calamities that are the work of nature and beyond the power or ingenuity of man to overcome. Fog, snow, desperate cold, and hurricanes sneer at man's best efforts to make safe the shores of these islands. In this book is told, in story and picture, of some of the wrecks that have made Saint Pierre and Miquelon a graveyard of ships for going on four centuries. - from IntroductionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shipwreck! Marine Misadventure in Story and Picture from the Treacherous Shores Beyond. To get started finding Shipwreck! Marine Misadventure in Story and Picture from the Treacherous Shores Beyond, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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