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     • Published in 1999, The Wreckers is a young adult adventure novel by Iain Lawrence. Set in 1799 on the coast of Cornwall, England, fourteen-year-old John survives a brutal shipwreck only to find himself hunted by a murderous village that lures ships to its coast and wrecks them to scavenge the remains.
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   • The Wreckers is the first book in Lawrence’s High Seas Adventures trilogy. Lawrence is an award-winning children’s author best known for his adventure stories. His book Gemini Summer won the 2007 Governor General’s Award in Children’s Literature. The Isle of Skye is sailing back to England with its cargo of wine barrels.

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   • Published in 1999, The Wreckers is a young adult adventure novel by Iain Lawrence. Set in 1799 on the coast of Cornwall, England, fourteen-year-old John survives a brutal shipwreck only to find himself hunted by a murderous village that lures ships to its coast and wrecks them to scavenge the remains.

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   Is the Wrecker a true story?

   • The Wrecker is a kind of blank-cartridge romance with a big explosion, which raises a dust, and if anything really has happened it escapes you in the flash and the cloud of smoke. The loosely connected stories reflect how Stevenson and Osbourne wrote the book.

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   Who wrote The Wrecker?

   • The Wrecker ( 1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne that was used sixty-five years later as the basis for an episode of the television series Maverick (1957) starring James Garner and Jack Kelly (see below).

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   • The Wreck is considered a good book because it has an interesting plot and its characters are likeable due to their unique feelings and emotions, which are influenced by tradition yet allow them to express themselves freely. This is best demonstrated through the development of their relationships throughout the book.

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   Who prayed for shipwrecks?

   • On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors' tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes.

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   From the bestselling author of ‘The Lighthouse Stevensons’, a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century – and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea.

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   May 11, 1998 · On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors' tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes.

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   Jan 1, 2005 · Spanning three hundred years of history, The Wreckers examines the myths, the realities, and the superstitions of shipwrecks and uncovers the darker side of life on Britain's shores. Genres History Nonfiction Crime World History Travel Scotland British Literature. ...more. 352 pages, Hardcover.

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   The Wreckers. Overview. There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore.

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   About The Wreckers. There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore.

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   A swashbuckling thriller, part one of THE HIGH SEAS ADVENTURES, set on the oceans of the eighteenth century - drama, horror, adventure... It is 1799. John Spencer is fourteen when his...