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Author : Henry Bennet Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Henry Bennet Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Viele
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561646466
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by John Viele and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of Keys wreckers, the daring seamen who saved lives and property from ships cast up on the Florida Reef.
Author : John Viele
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781561642199
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The Florida Keys: The wreckers written by John Viele and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007135548
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Iain Lawrence and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James S. Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The wrecker's light written by James S. Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rev. James S. MACKENZIE (of Little Dunkald.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Wrecker's Light: Annals of Winchburgh. A Temperance Tale written by Rev. James S. MACKENZIE (of Little Dunkald.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544301617
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Bella Bathurst and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Kirk
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411643577
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Shapers Chronicles: The Wreckers written by Dan Kirk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One of the classic on-line story finally available in print. Justin Ackeman learns that the end of the world is the beginning of a new one for him as he sets off on a path of self-discovery. Able to shape reality with the power of his mind, he learns that there are always terrible consequences for unbridled power.
Author : Cathryn J. Pearce
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184383555X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 written by Cathryn J. Pearce and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Rosa S. Kettle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The wreckers, by the author of 'Smugglers and foresters'. written by Mary Rosa S. Kettle and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Lynde
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 504051736X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Francis Lynde and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annie Jenkyns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers of Lavernock written by Annie Jenkyns and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062094742
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Lighthouse Stevensons written by Bella Bathurst and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Bella Bathurst and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307789012
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Iain Lawrence and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0440415969
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Smugglers written by Iain Lawrence and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steer clear of that ship," warns the mysterious gentleman who shares a coach with John and his father. "Death she'll bring you," says the man. "It's the way of a ship that was christened with blood." This is an ominous introduction to the schooner John is about to be entrusted with for a voyage to London. But he's too charmed by the pretty Dragon to heed the advice. The ship looks clever and quick, and John can hardly wait to sail her. She was a smugglers' vessel once, but now she's his Dragon, and she'll proudly carry wool for honest trade. But soon John will be forced to consider the gentleman's warning. And to wonder what he really knows about his bonny crew.
