The Economist (US), May 14th, 2005
A WRECKER, says the Oxford English Dictionary, is someone "who causes shipwreck, for the purposes of plunder by showing luring lights or false signals" or "a person who makes a business of watching for and plundering wrecked vessels."
In her grimly fascinating book, Bella Bathurst tells the story of British wreckers and shipwrecks over the past 300 years. Adding meat to the bones of myth, she uncovers tales of "grand pianos sitting unplayed in hovels, of crofts fitted with silver candelabra, and, more recently, of an entire island dressed in suspiciously identical shirts." She investigates ...
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