Cornish Characters and Strange Events
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Cornwall's lesser-known lives fill this collection of biographical sketches, local history and unusual incidents by S. Baring-Gould. His preface explains a wish to record people whose stories are scattered or difficult to find. The contents range from the geologist William Pengelly and the astronomer John Couch Adams to wrestlers, inventors, sailors and performers. An account of the Botathan ghost brings local belief into the same broad view of the county.
The writing also makes room for extended historical testimony. A section on Lieutenant Hawkey follows an expedition up the Zaire, drawing on journals that describe difficult travel, illness, bargaining and the retreat towards the ships. Readers interested in Cornish history will find a varied collection organized around individual lives, with scientific work, maritime experience and remembered oddities sharing its pages.
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- S. Baring-Gould
- Pages
- 654
- Language
- English
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- History
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