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Book The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler

Download or read book The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler written by Harry Carter and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fabled Coast

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sophia Kingshill
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-06-28
  • ISBN : 1409038459
  • Pages : 533 pages

Download or read book The Fabled Coast written by Sophia Kingshill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen’s prayers and sailors’ rituals – the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. In The Fabled Coast, renowned folklorists Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood gather together the most enthralling tales and traditions, tracing their origins and examining the facts behind the legends. Was there ever such a beast as the monstrous Kraken? Did a Welsh prince discover America, centuries before Columbus? What happened to the missing crew of the Mary Celeste? Along the way, they recount the stories that are an integral part of our coastal heritage, such as the tale of Drake’s Drum, said to be heard when England was in peril, and the mythical island of Hy Brazil, which for centuries appeared on sea charts and maps to the west of Ireland. The result is an endlessly fascinating, often surprising journey through our island history.

Book A Book of the West

Download or read book A Book of the West written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cornish Magazine

Download or read book The Cornish Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Blundellian

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Blundellian written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cove Diary 2

Download or read book The Cove Diary 2 written by Andrew Carne and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Another book! He hasn't been as tenacious as this since we kicked him out of house at sixteen and he spent an hour trying to get back in." - his mother. "He reckons he's been writing this junk for five years. Anyone with a single grain of propriety would have stopped after the first one - or even before." - Graham Windlass, Nottingham. "We've been waiting for this. I had the last one sent through the post because someone, probably him, said it would be worth a read. I knew I wasn't wasting my time nailing shut our letterbox." - Name supplied, Swindon. "If Edward Snowden had found this stuff in the darkened recesses of some government top secret files he would have left it there." - R. Griffiths, Northants.

Book A Book of Cornwall

Download or read book A Book of Cornwall written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walking in Penwith

Download or read book Walking in Penwith written by David Chapman and published by Alison Hodge Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide offers 12 walks in the far West of Cornwall, chosen to show the diversity of the region.

Book The Smugglers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles George Harper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Smugglers written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Antiquary

Download or read book The Western Antiquary written by William Henry Kearley Wright and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury, '" Mar. 1881-May 1884.

Book Smuggling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Harvey
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2016-04-15
  • ISBN : 1780236271
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Smuggling written by Simon Harvey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cellar door creaked open in the middle of the night, or a hand slipping quickly into a trenchcoat—the most compelling transactions are surely those we never see. Smuggling can conjure images of adventure and rebellion in popular culture—Han Solo knew all about it, as did Al Capone—but as Simon Harvey shows in this fascinating book, smuggling has had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the world. Shining a light onto seven centuries of dark history, he illuminates a world of intrigue and fortunes, hinged on outlaw desires and those who have been willing to fulfill them. Harvey tells this story by focusing on the most coveted contrabands of their time. In the Age of Discovery, these were silk, spices, and silver. During the days of western empires, they were gold, opium, tea, and rubber. And in modern times it has been, of course, drugs. To the side of these major commodities, he looks at a wide array of things that have always been in smugglers’ trunks, from guns to art to—the most dangerous of all—ideas. Central to this story are the (not always) legitimate forces of the Dutch and British East India Companies, the luminaries of the Spanish Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Nazis, Soviet trophy brigades, and the CIA, all of whom have made smuggling, at one point or another, part of their modus operandi. Beneath this, Harvey traces out the smaller-time smugglers, the micro-economies of everyday goods, precious objects, and people, drawing the whole story together into a map of a subterranean world crisscrossed by smugglers’ paths. All told, this is the story of the unrelenting drive of markets to subvert the law, of the invisible seams that have sewn the globe together.

Book Cornish Folk Tales for Children

Download or read book Cornish Folk Tales for Children written by Mike O'Connor and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Jamie, the son of a travelling droll teller, as he journeys across Cornwall, a land steeped in myth and legend. Along the way you will hear mysterious and exciting tales like what happened when Bodrugan took his soldiers to capture Richard Edgcumbe, why the ghost of Lady Emma was never seen again, what proper job King Arthur gave the Giant and how St Piran came to settle in Cornwall. These stories – specially chosen to be enjoyed by 7- to 11-year-old readers – sparkle with magic and explode with adventure. As old as the moors and as wild as the sea, they have been freshly re-told for today's readers by storyteller Mike O'Connor.

Book The Windsor Magazine

Download or read book The Windsor Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cornish Characters and Strange Events

Download or read book Cornish Characters and Strange Events written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scilly and Its Legends

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  • Author : Henry John WHITFELD (Vicar of Granborough, Bucks.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Scilly and Its Legends written by Henry John WHITFELD (Vicar of Granborough, Bucks.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scilly and Its Legends

Download or read book Scilly and Its Legends written by Henry John Whitfeld and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From the North Foreland to Penzance

Download or read book From the North Foreland to Penzance written by Clive Holland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1908 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the following pages, dealing with the most important or most picturesque of the harbours and seaports of the South Coast from the North Foreland to Penzance, no attempt has been made either to give "guide book information" which can be easily obtained elsewhere; or to afford technical sailing directions, soundings, or nautical information of the type to be found in such books as Cowper's admirable "Sailing Tours," "The Pilot's Guide," or in the Admiralty Charts. Rather has it been the object of the author to deal with the picturesque side of the various places described, and to give something of their story and romance, both past and present. That the coastline covered by the present volume has much of interest few will deny. It is, indeed, the one which has played the most strenuous and historic part in the history of our Island Kingdom.