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Treachery at Sharpnose Point : unraveling the mystery of the Caledonia's final voyage / by Jeremy Seal Hardcover - 2001
by Seal, Jeremy
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- Title Treachery at Sharpnose Point : unraveling the mystery of the Caledonia's final voyage / by Jeremy Seal
- Author Seal, Jeremy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New York : Harcourt, New York
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 155522
- ISBN 9780151005246 / 0151005249
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.35 x 1.1 in (23.60 x 16.13 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Caledonia (Ship), Shipwrecks - England - Sharpnose Point
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024980
- Dewey Decimal Code 914.287
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Summary
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.
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.
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She stood in the graveyard and stared at the sea, as if to understand the hurt it had once done her.