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: Mary WaughCornish 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.
Jamaica Inn
Author: Daphne du MaurierPublisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316575225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.
The Smugglers of Mousehole
Author: Alan Sanders-ClarkePublisher:
ISBN: 9780993556906
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A magical children's story about a smuggler's tunnel that takes two girls back in time into the magical world of smuggling. Set in the beautiful Cornish fishing village of Mousehole. Dubbed 'the Poldark for children' by the media.
Author: Jeremy Rowett Johns
Author: Chris McCooey
Author: Terry TownsendCornish 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: Terry Townsend