The Wrecker's Lamp
Author | : Dan Atkinson |
Publisher | : Institute for Public Policy Research |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Foreign exchange |
ISBN | : 9781872452968 |
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Author | : Dan Atkinson |
Publisher | : Institute for Public Policy Research |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Foreign exchange |
ISBN | : 9781872452968 |
Author | : Bella Bathurst |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2013-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0544301617 |
An “entertaining” historical investigation into the scavengers who have profited off the spoils of maritime disasters (The Washington Post). Even today, Britain’s coastline remains a dangerous place. It is an island soaked by four separate seas, with shifting sand banks to the east, veiled reefs to the west, powerful currents above, and the world’s busiest shipping channel below. The country’s offshore waters are strewn with shipwrecks—and for villagers scratching out an existence along Britain’s shores, those wrecks have been more than simply an act of God; in many cases, they have been the difference between living well and just getting by. Though Daphne du Maurier and Poldark have made Cornwall famous as Britain’s most notorious region for wrecking, many other coastal communities regarded the “sea’s bounty” as a way of providing themselves with everything from grapefruits to grand pianos. Some plunderers were held to be so skilled that they could strip a ship from stem to stern before the Coast Guard had even left port. Some were rumored to lure ships onto the rocks with false lights, and some simply waited for winter gales to do their work. This book uncovers tales of ships and shipwreck victims—from shoreline orgies so Dionysian that few participants survived the morning to humble homes fitted with silver candelabra, from coastlines rigged like stage sets to villages where everyone owns identical tennis shoes. Spanning three hundred years of history, The Wreckers examines the myths, realities, and superstitions of shipwrecks and uncovers the darker side of life on Britain’s shores. “Bathurst, who won a Somerset Maugham Award for The Lighthouse Stevensons, offers a spellbinding tale of seafaring men, their ships and the ocean that cares for neither.” —Publishers Weekly “A fascinating, haunting account of pillagers, plunderers, and pirates.” —John Burnett, author of Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
Author | : Bella Bathurst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the eighteenth century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. A fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure, and in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. In settings ranging from the Goodwin Sands to the wreck-strewn waters off the coast of Durham, these murky tales of resourcefulness and quick-witted opportunism open a vista of life at the rough edges.
Author | : Francis Lynde |
Publisher | : G.J. McLeod |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Railroad stories |
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Author | : Rev. James S. MACKENZIE (of Little Dunkald.) |
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Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Author | : Iain Lawrence |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-03-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307789012 |
There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors' tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes. Most never questioned their murderous way of life. Then, upon that pirates' shore crashed the ship The Isle of Skye. And the youngest of its crew members, 14-year-old John Spencer, survived the wreck. But would he escape the wreckers? This is his harrowing tale.
Author | : James S MacKenzie |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781358666629 |
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Merchant mariners |
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Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Merchant mariners |
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Author | : Bernard Francis Moore |
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Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1896 |
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