Wrecked : unsettling histories from the graveyard of the Pacific / Coll Thrush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, issuing body.

Series:

Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

Emil and Kathleen Sick book series in Western history and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks--Northwest Coast of North America.

Shipwrecks.

Shipwrecks--Washington (State)--History.

Shipwrecks--Oregon--History.

Navigation--Northwest Coast of North America--History.

Navigation.

Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

Northwest, Pacific--Colonization--History.

Northwest, Pacific.

Physical Description:

xx, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Unsettling histories from the graveyard of the Pacific

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, in association with Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, [2025]

Summary:

"The 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, Wrecked 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. Commemorated 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 beached in 1811 or an almost-empty tanker broken on the shore in 1999, shipwrecks on the Northwest Coast open 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, *Wrecked* demonstrates how the history of shipwrecks reveals the fraught and unfinished business of colonization on the Northwest Coast"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: A view from the shore

Introduction: A fragile machine : what we talk about when we talk about shipwreck

Everything that comes ashore is mine : a Pacific world wrecks on an indigenous coast

Troublous days : colonial fear and the wakes of maritime violence

All lost : the making of a settler graveyard

The green fire of Emily G. Reed : shipwreck debris and the construction of coastal culture

Out of time : ghost ships of the anthropocene

Neahkines archive : wrecklore and the bedrock of the past

Epilogue: The wreck at the edge of the world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970- Wrecked.

ISBN:

9780295753768

0295753765

OCLC:

1463663012

Publisher Number:

90101956139