A journey through Cornwall from the Tamar to the westernmost cliffs…
Tim Hannigan sets out on a meandering 300-mile journey through his own homeland, and along the way investigates the origins of Cornwall as an imaginative idea, and the connections between projections from without and identities from within…
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“A magnificent work of travel and historical deconstruction – deeply personal, meticulously researched and hugely enjoyable. Hannigan reaches for Cornwall and shakes it, letting all the fantastic images settle – the gothic novels, the Celtic theories and tourist fantasies – to leave behind something solid and just as strange, just as distinctive, just as extraordinary.’ — Philip Marsden
“’Beautifully researched and written with care. In a journey that is at once intimate and wide-ranging, Tim Hannigan takes the reader to the heart of Cornwall and Cornishness.’” — Wyl Menmuir
“Tim Hannigan writes with an authentic Cornish voice and a true
internationalist’s breadth of understanding.” — Patrick Gale
Tim Hannigan 