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Treachery At Sharpnose Point: Hardcover - 2001

by Seal, Jeremy

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New York: Harcourt, [2001]. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. 316 pp. Bound in original black boards with the spine stamped in red.
Used - Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
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  • Title Treachery At Sharpnose Point:
  • Author Seal, Jeremy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harcourt, New York
  • Date [2001]
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9007124
  • ISBN 9780151005246 / 0151005249
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.35 x 1.1 in (23.60 x 16.13 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Caledonia (Ship), Shipwrecks - England - Sharpnose Point
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024980
  • Dewey Decimal Code 914.287

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Summary

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for "wrecking"-luring ships ashore to loot the cargo-it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow?

Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction into this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind-the sort that really did happen.

First line

She stood in the graveyard and stared at the sea, as if to understand the hurt it had once done her.

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PRAISE FOR JEREMY SEAL
A natural raconteur."-The Wall Street Journal
Seal's writing is vivid, humorous, and wonderfully chilling."-Outside
Seal tells fascinating stories and complements them with lore that is funny . . . and mesmerizing."-Men's Journal