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Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall

by Robert Stephen Hawker

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The eccentric vicar of Morwenstow sketches the characters and legends of his wild coastal parish and its neighbours: Cruel Coppinger the smuggler, Antony Payne the Cornish giant, Daniel Gumb who lived in a rock, the Botathen ghost, Thomasine Bonaventure and the riding, wrecking and preaching folk of old Cornwall.

Rich local lore from the poet of ‘The Song of the Western Men’. Download the free EPUB.

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