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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea
by David Cressy.
Oxford, 313 pp., £30, September 2022,978 0 19 286339 3 Show More
by David Cressy.
Oxford, 313 pp., £30, September 2022,
“... the whole world more barbarous than that custom of these coasters in the west of England.’David Cressy, a historian of early modern Britain, wants to rescue these customs from such condescension. Coastal folk were not the immoral ‘wreckers’ of 18th-century myths, luring ships onto rocks with false lights; nor were they the proletarian heroes of ... ”