Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, João Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the História Trágico-Marítima edited by Bernardo Gomes de…
These three narratives are representative of a number of shipwrecks of homeward-bound ships off the coast of Natal where the survivors tried to march overland to the Portuguese trading stations. They give information about the obverse side of Portuguese East India trade and abou…
These three narratives are representative of a number of shipwrecks of homeward-bound ships off the coast of Natal where the survivors tried to march overland to the Portuguese trading stations. They give information about the obverse side of Portuguese East India trade and abou…
"Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on t…
The American coastal frontier -- Taming the beach: wreckers and wreck law on the Jersey shore -- Transforming the shore: tourism, lifesavers, and the rise of Quonnie -- Clearing the coast: Captain T.A. Scott, a "True American" -- Shipwreck and spectacle on the modern beach. "Re…
"Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on t…
"Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on t…
Lenihan tells his remarkable story of 25 years as founder and head of the Submerged Cultural Resource Unit (SCRU) ranging from ancient ruins covered by reservoirs in the desert Southwest to a World War II submarine off the Alaskan coast; from the Isle Royale shipwrecks in the fr…
America's elite underwater archaeology team surveys the Isle Royale shipwrecks (Lake Superior), explores the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, investigates the sinking of the Civil War submarine HL Hunley, resurveys the ships sunk by atomic bomb testing in the Bikini atoll, and more.
America's elite underwater archaeology team surveys the Isle Royale shipwrecks (Lake Superior), explores the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, investigates the sinking of the Civil War submarine HL Hunley, resurveys the ships sunk by atomic bomb testing in the Bikini atoll, and more.