Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage

Jeremy Seal

ISBN 10: 0151005249 / ISBN 13: 9780151005246

Edité par New York, San Diego & London: Harcourt, Inc., 2001

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Condition Notes: Dust wrapper lightly pulled at the head of the upper panel, a decent copy otherwise.; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with raised silver titles to the spine; Measures 9¼" x 6¼" (1.1 kg); pp 316; Bibliography; Cover art by Vaughn Andrews; Includes: Black & white photographs (within the text); Black & white drawings; Frontispiece map; Maps to the lining papers; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195919 ||.

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• Titre: Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage
• Éditeur: New York, San Diego & London: Harcourt, Inc.
• Date de parution: 2001
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0151005249
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780151005246
• Reliure: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Ships & The Sea

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Synopsis

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for "wrecking"-luring ships ashore to loot the cargo-it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow?

Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction into this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind-the sort that really did happen.