Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 : Reality and Popular Myth

Cornish Wrecking considers the myths surrounding wrecking, showing how these developed over time, and how moral attitudes towards wrecking changed.

Overall, the picture of evil wreckers deliberately luring ships onto the rocks is dispelled, to be replaced by a detailed picture of a coastal populace - poor and gentry alike - who were involved in a multi-faceted, sophisticated coastal practice and who had their own complex popular beliefs about the harvest and salvage of goods washing ashore from shipwreck. CATHRYN J PEARCE holds a PhD in Maritime History from Greenwich Maritime Institute. A former associate professor of history with the University of Alaska Anchorage's Kenai Peninsula College, she is now with University Campus Suffolk where she continues to research on the relationship of coastal people with the sea.

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SKU SKU8857

ISBN Number 9781843835554

Author Cathryn Pearce

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