by JeremySeal (Author)
While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the village of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, Jeremy Seal stumbled across a wooden figurehead which once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the coast below in 1842. Through further investigation, he began to suspect the locals and in particular the parson, Robert Hawker, of luring the ship to her destruction on Cornwall's jagged shore. Wrecking is known to have been widespread along several stretches of England's coast, but is that what happened in Morwenstow? Seal weaves history, travelogue and imaginative reconstruction into a piece of detective work.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Picador
Published: 22 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 033037463X
ISBN 13: 9780330374637