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Originally Posted by billsherlock
"The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks" by Bella Bathurst.
An amazing book about all those sailing ships that were wrecked on English coasts and the questionable early days of what is now the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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Heartily concur. She really knows her stuff and writes a very readable tale. The fact that it's non fiction makes it even better. Apparently she got the idea for the book while researching her previous tome, "The Lighthouse Stevensons" and kept coming across mentions of resistance by local folk to the buidling of lighthouses. Of course they didn't want lighthouses, they where making too much dosh out of the wrecks. To hell with the poor seamen and passengers who died because of the lack of
lights, these bustards just wanted the goods and chattels.