Author: Jeremy Rowett JohnsPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445651696
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Jeremy Johns provides a pictorial history of smuggling in Cornwall.
Author: Frank Graham
Author: Cornish Seafarers - The Smuggling, Wrecking and Fishing Life of Cornwall
Author: A. K. Hamilton JenkinPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473356989
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This fascinating book contains a detailed account of the seafaring lifestyle intrinsic to Cornish culture, covering a wide range of topics from smuggling and wrecking to fishing and general boating. A delightful book sure to appeal to anyone with a keen interest in Cornish culture, Cornish Seafarers is a must-have addition to collections of antiquarian nautical literature and well deserves a place atop any bookshelf. Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin (29 October 1900 - 20 August 1980) was best known as a historian, who had a keen interest in Cornish mining and published the classic text The Cornish Miner (1927). This rare text has been elected for modern republication due to its historical value, and is proudly republished here with a new introduction to the subject.
Author: Frank Graham
Author: Mary Waugh
Author: Henry Noel Shore Teignmouth (5th baron)Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860
Author: Cathryn J. PearcePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184383555X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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: Harry Carter
Author: John Vivian