The Wreckers
Author | : Henry Bennet Brewster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Bennet Brewster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Viele |
Publisher | : Pineapple Press Inc |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781561642199 |
Today, on the Keys between Key West and the mainland, some forty thousand residents and thousands of visitors fish, swim, sail and dive int he crystal clear waters off a tropical reef; relax in the sun adn cooling trade wind breezes; and sleep in the air-conditioned comfort of their homes and hotel rooms. On these same islands, as short a time as eighty years ago, fewer than three hundred inhabitants tried to eke out a living without benefit of electricity, running water, radios, or telephones. The stories of these hard pioneers and their predecessors, as far back as the Native Americans who lived on the Keys at least one thousand years ago, are told, many for the first time, in this book.
Author | : James S. Mackenzie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Iain Lawrence |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : 0007135548 |
John Spencer fears he is a sole survivor of a shipwreck along Cornwall's rocky coast but discovers his father is still alive. Can John rescue his father from the murderous wreckers who are holding his Dad prisoner.
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 | : John Viele |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1561646466 |
True stories of Keys wreckers, the daring seamen who saved lives and property from ships cast up on the Florida Reef.
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 | : Cathryn J. Pearce |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184383555X |
Discusses the complex laws and practices relating to wreck law, that is the right to salvage goods washed up on the shore, examines how Cornish people made use of this "harvest of the sea" and explores how myths about Cornish wrecking have developed.
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 | : Bella Bathurst |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-06-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0062094742 |
For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this mesmerizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.