{"product_id":"wrecked-unsettling-histories-from-the-graveyard-of-the-pacific-hardcover","title":"Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColl Thrush\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar have resulted in more than two thousand shipwrecks, earning the coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island the moniker \"Graveyard of the Pacific.\" Beginning with a Spanish galleon that came ashore in northern Oregon in 1693 and continuing into the recent past, \u003ci\u003eWrecked\u003c\/i\u003e includes stories of many vessels that met their fate along the rugged coast and the meanings made of these events by both Indigenous and settler survivors and observers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommemorated in museums, historical markers, folklore, place-names, and the remains of the ships themselves, the shipwrecks have created a rich archive. Whether in the form of a fur-trading schooner that was destroyed in 1811, a passenger liner lost in 1906, or an almost-empty tanker broken on the shore in 1999, shipwrecks on the Northwest Coast opens up conversations about colonialism and Indigenous persistence. Thrush's retelling of shipwreck tales highlights the ways in which the three central myths of settler colonialism--the disappearance of Indigenous people, the control of an endlessly abundant nature, and the idea that the past would stay past--proved to be untrue. As a critical cultural history of this iconic element of the region, \u003ci\u003eWrecked\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the history of shipwrecks reveals the fraught and unfinished business of colonization on the Northwest Coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColl Thrush is professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is author of \u003ci\u003eNative Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIndigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978274898221,"sku":"9780295753768","price":30.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/vT7Z-q_2489780295753768.webp?v=1775801398","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/wrecked-unsettling-histories-from-the-graveyard-of-the-pacific-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}