The Wreck at Sharpnose Point

Jeremy Seal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2014
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-4472-6795-9 (ISBN)

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Delightful and original ... an exhilarating combination of detective story, travel writing, personal memoir and creative fiction' Daily Mail

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.

Jeremy Seal is a writer and broadcaster. His first book, A Fez of the Heart, was shortlisted for the 1995 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is also the author of The Snakebite Survivors’ Club and The Wreck at Sharpnose Point, and was the presenter of Channel 4’s Wreck Detectives. He lives in Bath with his wife and daughters.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.3.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-4472-6795-8 / 1447267958
ISBN-13	978-1-4472-6795-9 / 9781447267959
Zustand	Neuware