The West Country
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Author | : John Payne |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 190849350X |
The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and hamlets. Farming, mining, quarrying, fishing and trade are the traditional industries of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. On one level, the West Country is the most English of all English regions, home of clotted cream, thatch, church spires, folksong, hobby horses and Cecil Sharp. Yet the area was trading with Mediterranean Europe before the Romans. For many years Bristol was the centre of the slave trade, and many of its great mansions were built on the proceeds of slavery. Great swathes of land in Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon are still used by the military and are off-bounds to visitors. And within the West Country is the special case of Celtic Cornwall, and the even more remote Isles of Scilly. People lived in the West Country long before Britain, or England, were invented. From the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire to the menhirs of Cornwall, and the wealth of prehistoric remains on the Isles of Scilly, this has always been an inhabited landscape, crafted by men and women working closely with nature and natural forces. John Payne explores this culturally rich and varied region, revealing many facets of its distinctive and much-loved identity.
Author | : MARK. GLAISTER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-09 |
Genre | : Rock climbing |
ISBN | : 9781873341889 |
West Country Climbs covers around 1000 of the West Country's most popular and highest calibre climbs, which span the full spectrum of climbing styles and grades; from committing multipitch sea cliff routes, to easy-going inland sport climbs. The rock ranges from the moorland and sea cliff granites of Dartmoor and West Penwith, through the geological weirdness of North Devon and Cornwall, to the multitude of limestones on parade in Devon, Somerset, Avon and Dorset.
Author | : Frank Thistlethwaite |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : N. Roe |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2010-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230281451 |
Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity.
Author | : Andrew Powell-Thomas |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2017-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445662515 |
Uncovers the remains of nearly 400 Home Guard emplacements scattered across Somerset, Dorset and Devon.
Author | : Bernie Steadman |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 946 |
Release | : 2018-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1913682862 |
Three novels in one volume featuring a police detective dealing with the darker side of Devon, England. This trio of crime novels starring Dan Hellier includes: Death in the Woods DI Dan Hellier has returned to Exeter under a cloud. But a chance for redemption comes when the body of a talented young singer is found in the woods. When links are revealed to a recording studio boss, a predatory gang, and a school music teacher, Hellier has to untangle a web of lies, and find out who silenced a singer forever. Death on Dartmoor When an amateur archaeologist makes an unusual find, she calls the local college. But this discovery—two headless, handless bodies in a bog—doesn’t require a professor but the police. DI Dan Hellier isn’t sure how to identify the victims when nobody has reported them missing. And the tension mounts when the death of a young man plunges Hellier into a murky mystery linked to a local family and an animal-rescue operation… Death on the Coast A homeless man has been beaten and thrown into a fire on the beach. To make things worse for DCI Dan Hellier, images of the crime are all over social media—and there’s more to come. To find a bitter, brutal killer before he strikes again, Hellier must identify a secretive cult and a story that goes back decades to the time of the Irish Troubles. Death in the Woods was previously published as Death and Deception, and Death on Dartmoor was previously published as Death and The Good Son, both under the name B.A. Steadman.
Author | : William Howie Wylie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Ayrshire (Scotland) |
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Author | : William Howie Wylie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Author | : R. N. Worth |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2024-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382830833 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author | : Richard Nicholls Worth |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2024-03-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 338539614X |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.