The Wreck at Sharpnose Point
Publisher: Picador
Published: March 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780330374637
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Maritime history; Travel writing; Cornwall; c 1800 to c 1900
Description: 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. He investigates whether it was lured to its destruction by the locals.