The Sea Their Graves: An Archaeology of Death and Remembrance in Maritime Culture

by David J. Stewart

Book Overview

"A 'classic' of its type--the closest comparison is the legendary Weibust's Deep Sea Sailors, and I would hazard to suggest that this book may come to hold a similarly important place in the scholarship of maritime ethnography."--Joseph Flatman, author of Ships and Shipbuilding in Medieval Manuscripts

"This innovative study provides an important analysis of Anglo-American mariners' attitudes toward death, the dead, and commemoration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813037344
• ISBN13: 9780813037349
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"