《wreckers》是2005年Houghton Mifflin Harcourt出版的圖書，作者是Bella Bathurst。
基本介紹
- 外文名：wreckers
- 作者：Bella Bathurst
- 出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN：9780618416776
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Bella Bathurst's first book, the acclaimed The LighthouseStevensons,told the story of Scottish lighthouse construction bythe ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. Now she returns to the seato search out the darker side of those lights, detailing the secrethistory of shipwrecks and the predatory scavengers who live off thespoils. Even today, Britain's coastline remains a dangerous place.An island soaked by four separate seas, with shifting sand banks tothe east, veiled reefs to the west, powerful currents above, andthe world's busiest shipping channel below, the country's offshorewaters are strewn with shipwrecks. For villagers scratching out anexistence along Britain's shores, those wrecks have been more thansimply an act of God; in many cases, they have been the differencebetween living well and just getting by. Though Daphne Du Mauriermade Cornwall Britain's most notorious region for wrecking, manyother coastal communities regarded the "sea's bounty" as animpromptu way of providing themselves with everything fromgrapefruits to grand pianos. Some plunderers were held to be soskilled that they could strip a ship from stem to stern before theCoast Guard had even left port, some were rumored to lure shipsonto the rocks with false lights, and some simply waited for wintergales to do their work. From all around Britain, Bathurst hasuncovered the hidden history of ships and shipwreck victims, fromshoreline orgies so Dionysian that few participants survived themorning to humble homes fitted with silver candelabra, fromcoastlines rigged like stage sets to villages where everyone ownsidentical tennis shoes. Spanning three hundred years of history,The Wreckers examines the myths, the realities, and thesuperstitions of shipwrecks and uncovers the darker side of life onBritain's shores.
圖書目錄
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 FALSE LIGHTS
2 GOODWIN SANDS
3 PENTLAND FIRTH
4 SCILLY ISLES
5 WEST COAST
6 ROYAL FISH
7 CORNWALL
8 EAST COAST
EPILOGUE
Bibliograpby
Index
作者簡介
Bella Bathurst is the author of The Lighthouse Stevensons, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and of the novel Special. Her journalism has appeared in the Washington Post, the London Sunday Times, and other major periodicals. Born in London, she lives in Scotland.
