Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005
ISBN 10: 0618416773 ISBN 13: 9780618416776
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Published by Harper Collins, 2005
ISBN 10: 0007170327 ISBN 13: 9780007170326
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Published by Harper Perennial, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007170335 ISBN 13: 9780007170333
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Published by Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, 2018
ISBN 10: 1721356088 ISBN 13: 9781721356089
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005
ISBN 10: 0618416773 ISBN 13: 9780618416776
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2005
ISBN 10: 0007207409 ISBN 13: 9780007207404
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Published by Mariner Books, Boston, 2005
ISBN 10: 0618416773 ISBN 13: 9780618416776
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First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 326 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 450817.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 2005
ISBN 10: 0618416773 ISBN 13: 9780618416776
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Bella Bathurst (born in 1969 in London) is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her novel The Lighthouse Stevensons won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award. " (from Wikipedia).
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston., 2005
ISBN 10: 0618416773 ISBN 13: 9780618416776
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing. Correct number line, including the 1. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A clean tight copy, which appears unread, without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price ($25) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Her second book.
Published by Harper Perennial 2006, 2006
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Published by London Harper Collins, 2005
Seller: Chaucer Head Bookshop, Stratford on Avon, Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom
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Hardback, 8vo blue cloth boards, gilt titles, first edition, xxiii prelims, 326pp. plus index, Colour illustrations. Photographic illustrations. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book is near fine. Dustwrapper is near fine. An entertaining and informative account of the events that used to unfold in British coastal communities, on the occasion of cargo ships being wrecked close to shore. Catalogue: Sea Voyages. Keywords: Shipwreck, plunder, loot, orgy.
Published by Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company., 2005
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Or.bds. Dustjacket. 326pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Bella Bathurst's history of British coastal shipwreck pillaging tells the remarkable story of coastal communities who turned tragedy into profit by gathering in the cargo of sunken or sinking ships.
Published by Harper Collins, 2005. 007170327, 2005
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback in Fine condition, complete with dustwrapper in Fine condition. First edition, ppxxiv, 326. "From all around Britain, Bathurst has uncovered the secret history of ships and shipwreck victims, from shoreline orgies so dionysian that few participants survived until morning to crofts fitted with silver candelabra, and from coastlines rigged like stage sets to the strange tale of Britain's Royal Fish. S7.
Published by HarperCollins 2005 First Edition, 2005
Seller: Elizabeth's Bookshops, Fremantle, WA, Australia
Softcover. Condition: AS NEW COPY!. A history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the eighteenth century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. A fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure, and in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. In settings ranging from the Goodwin Sands to the wreck-strewn waters off the coast of Durham, these murky tales of resourcefulness and quick-witted opportunism open a vista of life at the rough edges. pp. xxiv, 326 illusts #010422"From Jamaica Inn to Poldark to Whiskey Galore I, like others, have seen the 'fictional' take on wreckers in the British Isles but never really knew what was fact and what was fiction.Secretly I was hoping that this book would be crammed with tales of luring unwary ships onto the rocks and stories of Cornishmen fleeing from the redcoats over the cliffs and to a degree it was, but, it was so much more.Whilst the wrecking tales where what brought me to this book it delivered so much more with descriptions of the key wrecking areas and the people who inhabited them. It also branched out to cover lesser know areas classified as wrecking like Whales and other cretaceous relations.I found that the history of the locations and organisations involved in the prevention of wrecking including the RNLI which significantly had its roots in wrecking before the poachers turned gamekeeper were fascinating.Some may argue that parts of the book wandered too far from its core directive but it is this departure from the wrecking stories that make this a joy to read." Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.
Published by HarperCollins 2005, 2005
Seller: Pali, Roma, RM, Italy
Hard Cover in Dj. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 8vo, hardcover in dj. From the bestselling author of `The Lightouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. A fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure, and in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. The Cornish were supposed to be so ferocious that notices of shipwrecks were given out during morning service by the minister, whilst the congregation spent their time concocting elaborate theological justifications for drowning the survivors. Treeless islanders relied on the harvest of storms to furnish themselves with rafters, boat hulls, fence-posts and floors. In other places, false lights were set up with grisly ingenuity along the coast to lure boats to destruction. With romance, insight and dry wit, Bella Bathurst traces the history of wrecking, looting and salvaging in the British Isles since the 18th-century and leading up to the present day. `For a fully laden general cargo to run to ground in an accessible position is more or less like having Selfridges crash-land in your back garden,' she writes. `A Selfridges with the prices removed.' Far from being a black-and-white crime, wrecking is often seen as opaque by its practitioners - the divisions between theft and recovery are small. No successful legal prosecution has ever been brought; the RNLI was founded by wreckers - even today lifeboat crews maintain the right to claim salvage; and since the sinking of the Cita in 1997, the inhabitants of the Scilly Isles have a startling propensity to sport Ben Sherman shirts. In settings ranging from the eerily perambulatory Goodwin Sands to the wreck-strewn waters off the coast of Durham, these murky tales of resourcefulness and quick-witted opportunism open a beguiling vista of life at the rough edges of our land and legality.