Jeremy Seal TREACHERY AT SHARPNOSE POINT First Edition
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Jeremy Seal TREACHERY AT SHARPNOSE POINT First Edition
First US edition, first print hardback of TREACHERY AT SHARPNOSE POINT: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage, by Jeremy Seal and published by Harcourt Inc., New York, in 2001. Stated First Edition with numberline K J I H G F E D C B A.The book is in very good condition (clean black boards and red lettering on spine, very slight creasing to the spine edges) with only minor wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (minor creasing to edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.Acclaimed travel writer Jeremy Seal adroitly weaves Victorian mystery and pirate lore into this fascinating present-day detective story.While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the village of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish maiden trimmed with emblems and a shield. At first, Seal presumes the maiden is merely an elaborate headstone. But upon closer inspection, he realizes that the maiden, now a guardian for the graves she overlooks, was once the figurehead of a merchant ship. He learns that she adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842, and that the crew had been benevolently buried there by the villagers. Through further investigation leads Seal to suspect the those villagers, and chiefly the village's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's sudden demise. 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 did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow, a village cruelly perched above a jagged, inhospitable shore? Having meticulously researched maritime logs and burial registers, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative narrative into this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind - the sort that really did happen.316 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs throughout, maps on the end pages.ISBN: 0 15 100524 9
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