Cornwall—the plot revolves around deliberate wrecking. In 1942, the Technicolor Movie Reap The Wild Wind by Cecil B. DeMille depicted life in the wrecking business in the Nineteenth Century around Key West, Florida. It garnered an Academy Award for underwater Special Effects. In 1962, the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color TV series aired a two-episode live action adventure film entitled The Mooncussers about the investigation and exposure of a gang of wreckers. Enid Blyton, specifically in the Famous Five books, writes often about the treasures of the wreckers. The Wreckers, by Iain Lawrence, is a book for younger readers about The Isle of Skye (a London vessel) being shipwrecked along the shores of Pendennis, Cornwall. Canadian progressive rock band Rush included a song on their 2012 album Clockwork Angels titled "The Wreckers", the lyrics of which were inspired by historical tales of wreckers luring ships to their demise. Crimson Shore is part of the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The main story involves a ship, the Pembroke Castle, being purposefully wrecked on the rocks off the coast of Massachusetts. Coot Club, the fifth of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of books, features wreckers on the Norfolk Broads. The Wreck of the Zanzibar is a Whitbread Award-winning children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, set on the Isles of Scilly. H.M.S. Dolores is a 2016 board game whose plot centers around rival crews of wreckers. Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers would sing of wrecking in the song The Wreck of the Athens Queen, whose subjects "eat a lot of chicken and sit on a couch of green". See also Shipwreck Ship breaking Jus naufragii Beachcombing Notes References Albury, Paul. (1975) The Story of the Bahamas. Macmillan Caribbean Craton, Michael. (1986) A History of the Bahamas. Waterloo, Ontario: San Salvador Press Marx, Robert F. (1985) Shipwrecks in Florida Waters. Chuluota, Florida: The Mickler House. Viele, John. (2001) The Florida Keys: The Wreckers. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc. Further reading Bathurst, Bella. (2005)The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks. Houghton Mifflin. Pearce, Cathryn. (2010) Cornish Wrecking, 1700–1860; Reality and Popular Myth. Boydell & Brewer. External links Audio from a talk about Cornish Wreckers by Dr. David Cullum Neglectful or Worse: A Lurid Tale of Lighthouse Keeper and Wrecking in the Isles of Scilly by Dr. Cathryn Pearce The Unlucky Wrecker: William Pearse of St