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0034 |
Description
Portrait Of West Penwith
Using a variety of techniques
- photography, pencil, pen and watercolour and
ink drawings - Sue has captured this eternal landscape
By Sue Lewington
Paperback - 72 pages
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Code
0112 |
Description
Looking Westward
St. Ives to Lands End
A collection of watercolour drawings
of various scenes from St. Ives to Lands End.
By Sue Lewington
Paperback - 48 pages
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Code
1406 |
Description
The Busy Earth
A reader in global Cornish literature 1700-2000
Spanning three hundred years,
this reader compiles the very best of Global Cornish
Literature, written about lands where the Cornish
travelled, emigrated and worked
Edited by Alan M. Kent and Gage McKinney
Paperback - 320 pages
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Code
1408 |
Description
Setting Cornwall on its Feet
Robert Morton Nance 1873-1959
This collection of essays celebrates
the life and work of Robert Morton Nance (Mordon),
artist, folklorist, writer, maritime historian,
founder of the Old Cornwall Societies and Grand
Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd
Edited by Peter W. Thomas and Derek R. Williams
Paperback - 361 pages
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Code
1411 |
Description
That Bloody Woman
The turbulent life of
Emily Hobhouse - Cornwall's forgotten heroin
Now virtually forgotten, Emily
Hobhouse was in her time one of the most controversial
figures in the world, hailed as a second Joan
of Arc or Florence Nightingale yet denounced as
a traitor to her country.
by John Hall
Paperback - 329 pages
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Code
1415 |
Description
The Mining Paintings
Released to coincide with the
first exhibition in the new Hard Rock Gallery
here at Geevor
by Kurt Jackson
Paperback - 56 pages
£11.95
(See page
for details of the exhibition)
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Code
8928 |
Description
Iconic Cornwall
In words and photographs, this
book portrays those iconic locations that exemplify
Cornwall.
by Sarah Chapman
with photography by
David Chapman
Hardback - 128 pages
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Code
9039 |
Description
Penlee
The loss of a lifeboat
This is a record of the tragic
events of the night of the 19th December 1981
when the entire crew of the Penlee lifeboat Solomon
Browne were lost, together with the crew of the
coaster Union Star.
by Michael Sagar-Fenton
Paperback - 87 pages
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Code
8907 |
Description
Barclay Fox's Journal 1832-1854
Barclay Fox covered a great deal
of ground. From his home in Falmouth, Cornwall
he engaged in shipping, fishing, mining, foundry
management, farming, railways. First published
in 1979 these diaries offer an insight in to daily
life in the early 19th century.
Introduced by R.L. Brett and Charles Fox
Paperback - 488 pages
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Code
8904 |
Description
Bishop Rock Lighthouse
Exposed to the awesome power
of the unrestrained Atlantic Ocean at the very
edge of the Western Rocks on the Isles of Scilly
sits the Bishop Rock lighthouse. This book tells
the story of the lighthouse, its construction,
the workers who built it and the keepers who manned
it.
by Elizabeth Stanbrook
Paperback - 184 pages
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