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Mr Seal is a fantasiser, imagining whole scenes, but he does it with such relish one happily goes along with him. -- Sunday Telegraph
This highly readable account reminds us how impenetrable the past can be, despite the tantalising glimpses it sometimes offers us. -- Sunday Times
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'Delightful and original ... an exhilarating combination of detective story, travel writing, personal memoir and creative fiction' Daily Mail
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0330493256
- ISBN 13 9780330493253
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: As New. Reprint. 316 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. When Jeremy Stumbles Across The Wooden Figurehead Of The 'Caledonia' A Ship That Was Shipwrecked In 1842 He Soon Uncovers A Few Discrepancies. Seller Inventory # 133090
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THE WRECK AT SHARPNOSE POINT - A Victorian Mystery
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
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1st Australian edition. (12), 316 PP with b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimile of documents, photos). Fp: chart of the North coast of Cornwall, opposite Lundy Island. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. Wreck of the Caledonia in 1842, on the North coast of Cornwall. Seller Inventory # 61338
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Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thus. A very clean copy. Mostly non fiction with fictional additions by the author based on evidence he found in studying the wrecking of a ship. A very readable book about shipwrecks and wreckers in North Cornwall, and a good insight into the character Rev Hawker. Seller Inventory # 038957
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Seller: Leura Books, Bowral, NSW, Australia
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. 316 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN: 0330493256. ISBN/EAN: 9780330493253. Inventory No: 250895. Seller Inventory # 250895
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