The Islanders

Download or read book The Islanders written by John Trelawny and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775 a man was sentenced to be transported for seven years to the Mewstone, a barren rock off Plymouth Harbour in Devon. When he had served his sentence he took the tenancy of Looe Island in Cornwall. His family prospered through their involvement in the flourishing trade of smuggling into Cornwall from the Channel Islands and France. This is the story of how a convicted felon was able to take over a fertile and prosperous living and bring up his family over three generations. It is a novel, based on a scattered and incomplete trail of true events