Hinckley, Frederic:
Wrecked on a Reef in the China Sea: Incidents of Danger, Privation and Rescue - Livres de poche
2022, ISBN: 9781163225875
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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986. x, 337 pages, b/w ills throughout, bibliography, index, maps. Or cloth boards in jacket. Near new. The story of the Great Barrier Reef and the adjoini… Plus…
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986. x, 337 pages, b/w ills throughout, bibliography, index, maps. Or cloth boards in jacket. Near new. The story of the Great Barrier Reef and the adjoining Torres Strait and Coral Sea.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo., Angus & Robertson, 1986, 3, Jacksonville, FL: Florida Historical Society, 1963. Octavo, paperbound, ii + [116] pp. Very Good, with light rubbing to edges; year marked in ink on cover. Contents include: James ORmond, Merchant and Soldier (Alice Strickland); An Evaluation of the Freedmens Bureau in Florida (Joe M. Richardson); Wreckers and Wrecking on the Florida Reef, 1829-1832 (E. A. Hammond); La Floride: 1565 (James W. Covington); Book Reviews; News and Notes; Editors Corner: Tales of Old Florida, by Jane D. Brush., Florida Historical Society, 1963., 1963, 0, Paperback. New. This volume, the second in a series, contains Q's best known ghost story based on the wrecking of the HMS Primrose in 1807. It contains a short foreword setting the scene and an afterword describing the true events as well as annotations explaining Cornish terms, identifying locations and identifying the real historical personalities. Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times and founder of the school of English Literature at Cambridge University. He is of particular interest since his fiction was very often based on factual events which have now passed from memory.| Author: N. P. Cooper| Publisher: Lulu.Com| Publication Date: Aug 09, 2019| Number of Pages: 96 pages| Language: English| Binding: Paperback| ISBN-10: 0244355231| ISBN-13: 9780244355234, 6, Pixel+Ink, 2022-02-01. Hardcover. Used:Good., Pixel+Ink, 2022-02-01, 0, This book is an second hand library book, has typical stamps on a few pages made by library. Book has been laminated.Bella Bathurst's first book, the acclaimed The Lighthouse Stevensons,told the story of Scottish lighthouse construction by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. Now she returns to the sea to search out the darker side of those lights, detailing the secret history of shipwrecks and the predatory scavengers who live off the spoils. Even today, Britain's coastline remains a dangerous place. An island soaked by four separate seas, with shifting sand banks to the east, veiled reefs to the west, powerful currents above, and the world's busiest shipping channel below, the country's offshore waters are strewn with shipwrecks. For villagers scratching out an existence along Britain's shores, those wrecks have been more than simply an act of God; in many cases, they have been the difference between living well and just getting by. Though Daphne Du Maurier made Cornwall Britain's most notorious region for wrecking, many other coastal communities regarded the "sea's bounty" as an impromptu way of providing themselves with everything from grapefruits to grand pianos. Some plunderers were held to be so skilled that they could strip a ship from stem to stern before the Coast Guard had even left port, some were rumored to lure ships onto the rocks with false lights, and some simply waited for winter gales to do their work. From all around Britain, Bathurst has uncovered the hidden history of ships and shipwreck victims, from shoreline orgies so Dionysian that few participants survived the morning to humble homes fitted with silver candelabra, from coastlines rigged like stage sets to villages where everyone owns identical tennis shoes. Spanning three hundred years of history, The Wreckers examines the myths, the realities, and the superstitions of shipwrecks and uncovers the darker side of life on Britain's shores., Harper Collins, 2005, 0, New., 6, Hardback. Very Good., 3, New York: William Morrow, 2002. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. May have a small remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Maps. Illustrations. Chapter notes. Traces the lives of fabled pirates such as Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, etc. From the Dust Jacket: "An extraordinary and dramatic tale of shipwrecks, underwater discovery, and the dawn of the golden age of piracy. On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank in the Caribbean Sea, one hundred miles off the Venezuelan coast on the killer reef of Las Aves Island. These wrecks, which claimed more than 1,200 lives, proved disastrous for French naval power in the region and sparked the rise of a 'golden age of piracy,' an era that was to forever to alter the shape of the Americas... Clifford interweaves the dramatic tale of this maritime catastrophe -- and the dangerous upsurge of piracy in the world's seas -- with the contemporary account of his own expedition to document and explore the wrecks... Beautifully told, epic in scope, and steeped in period detail, THE LOST FLEET is a mesmerizing account of historical discovery and underwater reclamation for anyone with the heart for adventure, history, myth, and treasure hunting." Keywords: Buccaneers. Mapping. Men-of-War. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Black spine / red boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (27.95). 8vo. xi, 287pp. ., William Morrow, 2002, 0, New York: William Morrow, 2002. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. May have a small remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Maps. Illustrations. Chapter notes. Traces the lives of fabled pirates such as Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, etc. From the Dust Jacket: "An extraordinary and dramatic tale of shipwrecks, underwater discovery, and the dawn of the golden age of piracy. On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank in the Caribbean Sea, one hundred miles off the Venezuelan coast on the killer reef of Las Aves Island. These wrecks, which claimed more than 1,200 lives, proved disastrous for French naval power in the region and sparked the rise of a 'golden age of piracy,' an era that was to forever to alter the shape of the Americas... Clifford interweaves the dramatic tale of this maritime catastrophe -- and the dangerous upsurge of piracy in the world's seas -- with the contemporary account of his own expedition to document and explore the wrecks... Beautifully told, epic in scope, and steeped in period detail, THE LOST FLEET is a mesmerizing account of historical discovery and underwater reclamation for anyone with the heart for adventure, history, myth, and treasure hunting." Keywords: Buccaneers. Mapping. Men-of-War. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Black spine / red boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (27.95). 8vo. xi, 287pp. ., William Morrow, 2002, 0, Newbury, Berkshire : Countryside Books, 1991. 128 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). B&w map, photographs, reproductions. "Over the centuries, the Bristol Channel, with one of the highest tidal ranges in the world and opening out to the fury of the Atlantic Ocean, has seen the end of many a fine ship. Both English and Welsh coasts have their own particular hazards, including the cruel chain of reefs, rocks and cliffs from Hartland Point to Bridgwater Bay and the treacherous Gower Coast. (This book) tells the stories behind some of the most dramatic and unusual of these disasters. Lundy Island, for centuries the haunt of smugglers and pirates, was the scene in 1906 of the spectacular wreck of HMS Montague, a first class battleship of 14,000 tons. The schooner Gipsy brought the entire port of Bristol to a standstill in 1878 when she ran aground in the Avon Gorge. Locked in the holds of the Admiralty tender Caesar, 68 victims of the press gang drowned when she was driven onto the rocks of Pwlldu Head in 1760. In 1883, the two daughters of the Mumbles lighthouse keeper stood in the raging sea, hauling survivors of the stricken lifeboat Wolverhampton from the waves. Graham Smith brings these and many more stories to life, recalling the characters who manned these working vessels and the more unusual ships of this busy waterway. For this is an account not only of the ships that foundered but also of the courage and heroism displayed by seamen and those who risked their lives to save them." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at corners and top/bottom of spine, tiny scuff on spine edge, two small soft creases on front cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good., Countryside Books, 1991, 3, New., 6<
