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Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places

Spatial Practices

An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature

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General Editors:

Christoph Ehland (Universität Paderborn) Chris Thurgar-Dawson (Teesside University) Editorial Board:

Christine Berberich Catrin Gersdorf Jan Hewitt Peter Merriman Ralph Pordzik Merle Tönnies Founding Editors:

Robert Burden Stephan Kohl

Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places

Edited by

Anna-Margaretha Horatschek, Yvonne Rosenberg and Daniel Schäbler

Amsterdam - New York, NY 2014

Cover image: Wasser Amrum, by Patrick Schinowski. Copyright lies with the artist. .

The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. ISSN: 1871-689X ISBN: 978-90-420-3862-2 E-book ISBN: 978-94-012-1104-8 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2014 Printed in the Netherlands

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