The Wreck at Sharpnose Point - Softcover
This is a captivating mystery of the best kind - the sort that really happened. While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the village of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, Jeremy Seal stumbled across a wooden figurehead which once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the coast below in 1842. Through further investigation, he began to suspect the locals, and in particular the parson, Robert Hawker, of luring the ship to her destruction on Cornwall's jagged shore. Wrecking is known to have been widespread along several stretches of England's coast. But is that what happened in Morwenstow? Seal weaves history, travelogue and vivid imaginative reconstruction into a marvellous piece of detective work.
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Jeremy Seal has worked in publishing, taught in Turkey and now writes travel articles for publications including the Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Sunday Times. His previous two books, A Fez of the Heart and The Snakebite Survivor's Club, are also published by Picador.
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This captivating true story of a Cornish shipwreck is a combination of history, travelogue and imaginative reconstruction from highly acclaimed travel writer Jeremy Seal.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0330374656
- ISBN 13 9780330374651
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