David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 336. $41.99 (cloth).

This is a most welcome book not just due to its delightful use of language, which makes reading it a pleasure, but also because it should be subtitled "Killing the wrecking myths."David Cressy has produced a book which does just that and builds on the work by Cathryn Pearce who examined wrecking in Cornwall (Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860: Reality and Popular Myth

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Journal of British Studies
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2024-10-01
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https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.131
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Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
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David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 336. $41.99 (cloth).

Helen Doe
Journal of British Studies
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
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David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 336. $41.99 (cloth).

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This is a most welcome book not just due to its delightful use of language, which makes reading it a pleasure, but also because it should be subtitled "Killing the wrecking myths."David Cressy has produced a book which does just that and builds on the work by Cathryn Pearce who examined wrecking in Cornwall (Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860: Reality and Popular Myth

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David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 336. $41.99 (cloth). — Helen Doe · Journal of British Studies (2024) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS