Vanishing Cornwall: The Spirit And History Of Cornwall
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers have been as inextricably bound to a landscape as Daphne du Maurier was to Cornwall, and Vanishing Cornwall stands as her most personal and passionate testament to that bond. Written as both a love letter and a lament, this evocative work chronicles the rugged cliffs, ancient tin mines, forgotten fishing villages, and Celtic mysteries of a county that shaped du Maurier's imagination and, in her view, was being irrevocably lost to the modern world. Accompanied by atmospheric photographs by her son Christian Browning, the book paints an intimate portrait of a land steeped in legend, industry, and wild, untameable beauty. Du Maurier writes with the authority of someone who lived and breathed Cornish soil for decades, weaving personal memoir with historical inquiry and cultural observation to produce a work of rare depth and tenderness. Her prose, always luminous and precise, illuminates the layers of Cornwall's past — from its prehistoric standing stones to the towering engine houses of its mining heritage — while sounding a quiet, urgent alarm about the erasure of regional identity. A masterwork of place-writing that will leave readers wondering what else the tides of progress have silently carried away.
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Format: Paperback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers have been as inextricably bound to a landscape as Daphne du Maurier was to Cornwall, and Vanishing Cornwall stands as her most personal and passionate testament to that bond. Written as both a love letter and a lament, this evocative work chronicles the rugged cliffs, ancient tin mines, forgotten fishing villages, and Celtic mysteries of a county that shaped du Maurier's imagination and, in her view, was being irrevocably lost to the modern world. Accompanied by atmospheric photographs by her son Christian Browning, the book paints an intimate portrait of a land steeped in legend, industry, and wild, untameable beauty. Du Maurier writes with the authority of someone who lived and breathed Cornish soil for decades, weaving personal memoir with historical inquiry and cultural observation to produce a work of rare depth and tenderness. Her prose, always luminous and precise, illuminates the layers of Cornwall's past — from its prehistoric standing stones to the towering engine houses of its mining heritage — while sounding a quiet, urgent alarm about the erasure of regional identity. A masterwork of place-writing that will leave readers wondering what else the tides of progress have silently carried away.