The Wreck At Sharpnose Point

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: Reprint

Description: 316 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. When Jeremy Stumbles Across The Wooden Figurehead Of The 'Caledonia' A Ship That Was Shipwrecked In 1842 He Soon Uncovers A Few Discrepancies.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780330493253