The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler
Author: Harry Carter
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Harry Carter
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. K. Hamilton Jenkin
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1473356989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating book contains a detailed account of the seafaring lifestyle intrinsic to Cornish culture, covering a wide range of topics from smuggling and wrecking to fishing and general boating. A delightful book sure to appeal to anyone with a keen interest in Cornish culture, Cornish Seafarers is a must-have addition to collections of antiquarian nautical literature and well deserves a place atop any bookshelf. Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin (29 October 1900 - 20 August 1980) was best known as a historian, who had a keen interest in Cornish mining and published the classic text The Cornish Miner (1927). This rare text has been elected for modern republication due to its historical value, and is proudly republished here with a new introduction to the subject.
Author: Alan Sanders-Clarke
Publisher:
Published: 2016-05-17
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780993556906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA magical children's story about a smuggler's tunnel that takes two girls back in time into the magical world of smuggling. Set in the beautiful Cornish fishing village of Mousehole. Dubbed 'the Poldark for children' by the media.
Author: Jeremy Rowett Johns
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1445651696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeremy Johns provides a pictorial history of smuggling in Cornwall.
Author: Trevor May
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-08-10
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 178442000X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmuggling was rife in Britain between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and since then smugglers have come often to be romanticised as cheeky rogues – as highwaymen of the coasts and Robin Hood figures. The reality could be very different. Cut-throat businessmen determined to make a profit, many smugglers were prepared to use excessive force as often as they used cunning, and the officers whose job it was to apprehend them were regularly brutally intimidated into inaction. Trevor May explains who the smugglers were, what motivated them, where they operated, and how items ranging from barrels of brandy to boxes of tea would surreptitiously be moved inland under the noses of, and sometimes even in collusion with, the authorities.
Author: Tony Deane
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0750956526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStanding alone at the bottom tip of England and despite the enormous influx of tourists it receives each year, Cornwall boasts many unique traditions. This volume touches on the wide variety of legends, songs and stories and their relationship with the rugged landscape: from standing stones and tales of sea-monsters and mermaids to ghosts, fairies and giants. The book looks at pagan ceremonies and old traditions, and the very Cornish love of singing. It further discusses the Cornish tongue, and the old language of Cornwall. And, of course, no study of Cornwall would be complete without some consideration of King Arthur and his legacy upon the folklore of the county.
Author: Clive Holland
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Charles George Harper
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simon Harvey
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1780236271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
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Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781904880042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic. Payton is one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people over time, both within the UK and to the major mining and agricultural districts of the world. This book follows new research over the last six years.