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Cape Breton Shipwreck Stories

edited by Ron Caplan

Publisher
Breton Books
Initial publish date
Jan 2000
Category
General

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781895415483
    Publish Date
    Jan 2000
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

These are 15 stories of people determined to live, told by people determined to keep the stories alive. Filled with courage and humanity, this book is a tribute to the traditions of Cape Breton storytelling. From the gut-wrenching journal by a survivour of the Auguste (1761) to John Angus Frasers' hilarious adventures on the abandoned Kismet (1957), to Walter Boudreau's harrowing account of days adrift while his companions died around him (1943)--this is a book of stories that will last.

About the author

Ronald Caplan has served as interviewer and photographer for Cape Breton's Magazine for twenty-five years. He has received the Barbeau Award of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, Nova Scotia's Cultural Life Award, the Canadian Historical Association's Award for exemplary contribution to the Oral History of Cape Breton and an honorary doctorate from Cape Breton University. His work is best known for keeping the Cape Breton story alive through oral testimony and images. Living at Wreck Cove on the Cabot Trail, Caplan is the author of several books and the publisher of Breton Books.

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