Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world /

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"Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--

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Main Author:	Morrison, James V., 1956- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Shipwrecks in literature. Disasters in literature. Shipwreck survival in literature.
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