Overview
- Draws on extensive oral histories and documentary research
- Discusses the connection between wrecks and nearby coastal communities, an overlooked field of archaeology
- Examines over 90 shipwrecks and their effect on the coastal town of Queenscliff
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: When the Land Meets the Sea (ACUA, volume 3)
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About the authors
Dr. Brad Duncan is the State Maritime Archaeologist responsible for the Maritime Heritage Program at NSW Heritage Branch, Parramatta Australia. He specialises in maritime cultural landscapes, historic maritime infrastructure studies, and fishing and defence landscapes. His current research projects include regional interpretation of the maritime cultural landscapes of coastal and inland waterways, the archaeology of shipbreaking and adaptive reuse of hulks, deep water wrecks, WWII sites in the Solomon Islands, and remote sensing of convict sites on Norfolk Island.
Dr. Martin Gibbs is Professor of Australian Archaeology at the University of New England, Australia. His maritime interests include the archaeology of maritime industries, cultural aspects of shipwreck site formation, shipwreck survivors, and the processes of maritime colonisation. Current research projects include the archaeology of the 16th century Spanish explorations and failed colonies of the Solomon Islands and studies of the convict system in Australia. He is also the author of ‘The Shore whalers of Western Australia: Historical Archaeology of a Maritime Frontier’ (University of Sydney Press, 2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Please God Send Me a Wreck
Book Subtitle: Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community
Authors: Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
Series Title: When the Land Meets the Sea
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2642-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2641-1Published: 25 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6627-1Published: 03 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2642-8Published: 25 May 2015
Series ISSN: 1869-6783
Series E-ISSN: 1869-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 243
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage