de tailed information on the featured shipwreck or site, including, for example, vessel history, description of excavation and study, artifacts recovered, research into related sites such as survivor camps, and interpretation strategies. Shipwreck Archaeology in Australia could be considered a coffee table book, with lavish, full-color ill ustrations on nea rly every page, a surprisingly modest price, and an engaging, easy-to-read sryle which certainly will appeal to the general p ublic and anyone interested in mari time history and the excitement of shipwrecks. The information contained in the book, however, is an important survey of the archaeological research carried out on Australia's maritime heritage sites and provides useful case studies for both students and professionals engaged in maritime history, underwater archaeology, cultural reso urce management, and the public interpretation of maritime sites. DELLA ScoTT-l RETON , PttD Pensacola, Florida
Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search by Mary L. Fowler (Universiry of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2008, 304pp, illus, notes, index, ISBN 0-8173-1611-6; $29.95hc) This book is q uite unlike other recent accounts by children of World War II submariners seeking to resurrect the life stories of lost parents. While th e author has meticulously researched the brief career of the father she never knew, Commander James W Coe, she puts equal focus on the devastating emotional trauma that a loved one's loss can inflict on the fami lies left beh ind. The story of Coe's demise is hauntingly short: in command of USS Cisco (SS 290) , he left Darwin, Australia, on 19 September 1943 and was never heard from again . Crushed by the loss of her beloved h usband, with two small children to support and pregnant with a third, Rachel Coe rebo unded into a disastrous marriage . In her bitterness she buried the memories of her former life. As Mary Lee Coe was born after her father disappeared, she grew up knowing only a distant mother and a stepfather who fed her negative views of submariners in general and her biological father in particular. After fifteen years in this dysfunctional household, at which point her mother filed for divorce, Mary Lee understandably came to feel that there was something vaguely disSEA HISTORY 123, SUMMER 2008
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