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'The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships' by Bella Bathurst. |
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| Description | From the bestselling author of The Lightouse Stevensons, a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the eighteenth century -- and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. The Cornish were supposed to be so ferocious that notice of shipwrecks were given out during morning service by the minister, whilst the congregation spent their time concocting elaborate theological justifications for drowning the survivors. Treeless islanders relied on the harvest of storms to furnish themselves with rafters, boat hulls, fence-posts and floors. In other places, false lights were set up with grisly ingenuity along the coast to lure boats into destruction. wrecking, looting and salvaging since the eighteenth century and leading up to the present day.'For a fully laden general cargo to run to ground in an accessible position is more or less like having Selfridges crash-land in your back garden, ' she writes, 'a Selfridges with the prices removed'. Far from being a black-and-white crime, wrecking is often seen as opaque by its practitioners -- the divisions between theft and recovery are small. No successful legal prosecution has ever been brought; the RNLI was founded by wreckers -- even today lifeboat crews maintain the right to claim salvage; and since the sinking of the Cita in 1997, the inhabitants of the Scilly Isles have a startling propensity to sport Ben Sherman shirts. Wreckers opens a beguiling vista of life at the rough edges of our land and legality | | Release Date | 2005 | | Author | Bella Bathurst | | Format | Dimensions 14.1x23.0x3.4 cm
378 pages
book | | Publisher | HarperCollins | | Subject(s) | History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
History / Military / Naval
History / Europe / Renaissance
History / Modern / General
Social Science / Archaeology
Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
True Crime / General
Travel / Europe / Great Britain |
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