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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…
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The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships Tapa blanda - 2005
de Bathurst, Bella
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- Título The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships
- Autor Bathurst, Bella
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Editorial Harper Collins, Australia
- Fecha de publicación 2005
- ISBN 9780007207404
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The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships: A story of killing seas, false lights and plundered ships
de Bella Bathurst
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- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Usado
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780007207404 / 0007207409
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Perth , Western Australia, Australia
- Precio
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EUR 13.16EUR 12.22 enviando a USA
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