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The wreckers : a story of killing seas and plundered shipwrecks, from the eighteenth century to the present day

Examines the life of shipwreck scavengers living on the coast of England, discussing a little-known subculture that has existed for more than three centuries
Print Book, English, 2005
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005
Nonfiction
xxiv, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780618416776, 0618416773
58721159
False lights
Goodwin sands
Pentland firth
Scilly Isles
West coast
Royal fish
Cornwall
East coast