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| Cornish Rocks and Minerals
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| By Simon Camm
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| ISBN: 9780906720714
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| CATEGORY: Pocket Cornwall
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Cornwall is extraordinarily rich in minerals. This guide includes a general introduction to the geology of the county, and describes the formation of minerals discussed in the book. It looks at different regions of Cornwall, and examples of rocks and minerals that can be found there today, as well those discovered in the past.
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| Beneath Cornish Seas
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| By Mark Webster
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| ISBN: 9780906720707
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| CATEGORY: Art/Photography
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Hidden below the surface of the temperate Cornish seas is an amazing array of colourful marine life, whose diversity challenges that of a tropical reef. Indeed, many of our species are closely related to those in warm waters, for the Gulf Stream divides around the peninsula, bringing warmer, clearer waters that propagate a diversity of marine life not generally found elsewhere around the UK's coastline. A multitude of invertebrate species, including anemones, soft and stony corals, and even sea fans more common on coral reefs, paint the rocks with carptes of colour, and fish life is profuse, with shoals of bass and mackerel, wrasse, flatfish, blennies, scorpion fish, tope, sharks, and visitors from warmer, Southern waters.
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| From Hedgerow to High Tor: The Wildlife Diary of a Country Artist
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| By Dick Twinney
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| ISBN: 9780906720691
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From Hedgerow to High Tor is a record of some of the flora and fauna common to the Westcountry. Wildlife artist Dick Twinney is a painter for all seasons. His paintings have life-like detail, art oozing colour and character, taking you to the edge of reality, his animals appearing out of their backgrounds as you approach them.
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| Cornwall from the Coast Path
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| By Michael Kent & Merryn Kent
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| ISBN: 9780906720684
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In 2007, Mike Kent fulfilled a long-standing ambition to walk the whole of the coast path of his Cornish homeland, from Marsland to Cremyll. During the 16-day journey, walking for up to 14 hours each day, and occasionally camping wild on remote and rugged cliffs, Mike recorded his thoughts and observations about various things Cornish. On his return, Mike and Merryn Kent dug deeper to uncover more about the places and people, landscapes and wildlife, that caught his imagination along the way.
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| A Cornish Year
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720677
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| CATEGORY: Natural history
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By the acclaimed author of Wild about Cornwall (Alison Hodge, 2007), A Cornish Year charts a year in the life of David Chapman. Written in diary style, it focuses on the outdoors: on wildlife, projects and practical work, organizations and groups, and seasonal events. If you want to know more about the wildlife that’s special to Cornwall; the people who work in conservation in the county; how to get more involved with our natural history… or you would just like to read about the antics of a mad nature-lover in Cornwall, then this book is for you.
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| Inspirational Islands: The Isles of Scilly
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720660
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| CATEGORY: Pocket Cornwall
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Long white beaches washed by a turquoise sea; rocks sculpted by wind, rain and sea-spray; exotic, subtropical plants; weather constantly changing, from storms lashing the coast, to sea mists with sun sparkling on the sea. This book captures the natural beauty of the Isles of Scilly, and gives a snapshot of their history.
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| St Ives and St Ives Bay
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720653
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Narrow streets and alleys; a harbour packed with boats; beaches of clean white sand and crystal-clear waters. Sunlight playing with colour, shadow and form. Located on a spectacular, sheltered bay, with its sweeping dune systems, estuary and the distant landmark of Godrevy Lighthouse, this is St Ives.
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| Wildflowers of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720646
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Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are home to some of the best displays of wildflowers in the world. From primroses and carpets of bluebells in spring, through thrift, orchids and poppies in summer, to the stunning spectacle of heather and gorse in autumn, Cornwall has it all. This book includes over 300 species, and 240 colour photographs.
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| Iconic Cornwall
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| By Sarah Chapman & David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720578
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| CATEGORY: Cornwall
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Cornwall has a unique culture, heritage, beauty and atmosphere. Its character is defined to a large extent by the places, people, natural features and buildings that typify and represent the best of the county. In words and photographs, this book portrays those iconic locations that exemplify Cornwall – places that fascinate, intrigue and inspire.
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| Exploring the Cornish Coast
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720561
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Cornwall is almost surrounded by sea. Some 300 miles of coast includes majestic cliffs, sheltered harbours, creeks and estuaries, and magnificent beaches. This book focuses on the different types of coastal habitat – their geography, geology and wildlife.
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| Birds of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720554
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More than 250 species of birds are recorded in Cornwall every year. This books includes them all, with 162 spectacular colour photographs of all the common ones, most of the uncommon ones, and some of the rarer birds. It includes 'at a glance' details of seasons, habitats, status, and places in which to see them.
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| Penwith Moods
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720547
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The most westerly tip of Cornwall, and of England, the Penwith peninsula is an ancient, Celtic land, subject to the vicissitudes of weather from the Atlantic. David Chapman's evocative photographs perfectly capture the mood of the place.
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| Heligan Survivors
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| By Philip McMillan Browse (ed.)
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| ISBN: 9780906720530
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| CATEGORY: Garden history
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Initially inaccessible and swamped by overgrowth when the Lost Gardens were rediscovered in 1990, much of Heligan’s valuable woody plantstock was subsequently identified and protected during the course of clearance by Philip McMillan Browse, then Cornwall County Council Horticultural Advisor (and former Director of RHS Wisley).
Philip later became Heligan’s first Horticultural Director, and encouraged his team to research into the origins of the veteran specimens in their care. Some individuals are rare indeed – and vulnerable in their old age.
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| Exploring the Camel Estuary
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| By Michael Kent & Adrian Langdon
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| ISBN: 9780906720523
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| CATEGORY: Pocket Cornwall
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The Camel Estuary is famous for its outstanding natural beauty. Its magnificent scenery varies from the wood-lined banks at its tidal limits to the open waters and exposed shores at its mouth, and changes
dramatically with the state of tide and the seasons. This book explores the Camel Estuary, its diverse habitats, and the wealth of plants and animals they support.
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| Wild about Cornwall
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| By David Chapman
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| ISBN: 9780906720516
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| CATEGORY: Natural history
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Wild About Cornwall looks at the best places to go to experience the natural history of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It includes some 40 locations around the county, featuring well-known spots such as Kynance, and some much less well known, such as the arable fields of Boscregan Farm near Land’s End. Locations have been chosen to offer a chance not just to see but to experience the county’s best wildlife in some stunning locations.
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| 101 Cornish Lives
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| By Maurice Smelt
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| ISBN: 0906720508
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This fascinating book ranges over hundreds of years and thousands of miles, tracking a colourful cast of Cornish men and women who are, or should be, famous. Sharp, irreverent, affectionate and often surprising, Maurice Smelt captures the spirit of the place and its people in a collection of pen portraits of saints, heroes and villains, from St Piran to Rick Rescorla. If you’re Cornish, or you simply love Cornwall, then this is the book for you.
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| Cornwall from Above
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| By John Such; introduction by Liz Luck
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| ISBN: 0906720494
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In some of the most stunning aerial photographs of the county, Cornwall from Above reveals colours, textures and patterns of land, sea and sky – some natural, others man-made. It offers a visual feast, and a new perspective on the imprint of human activity on this ancient environment.
John Such was born in Newquay, Cornwall, and from the age of 12 knew that he wanted to be a photographer.
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| Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs
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| By Philip McMillan Browse
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| ISBN: 0906720400
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| CATEGORY: Garden history
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Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs celebrates the abundance of the award-winning productive gardens at the Lost Gardens of Heligan. With derelict structures restored to working order, the range of traditional crops now cultivated and harvested by hand is beginning to reflect the output of the gardens in their late Victorian heyday.
This book tells the stories of reconstruction behind increasingly well-known features – the beautiful apple arches in the Vegetable Garden, the unique pineapple pit in the Melon Yard and the historically significant Paxton House in the Flower Garden.
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| Heligan Days: A Perpetual Diary
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| By Mally Francis
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| ISBN: 0906720478
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Forty-nine exquisite botanical paintings produced since 1997 at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. These include some of the ancient, almost iconic, flowering trees and shrubs in the pleasure grounds of the Lost Gardens; cut-flower, fruit and vegetable crops from the award-winning productive gardens, and wild flowers and fungi from Heligan’s wider estate. The book includes an introduction by the artist, and spaces to record notes or birthdays for each day of the year.
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| Heligan Days: A Perpetual Diary
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| By Mally Francis
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| ISBN: 0906720478
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Forty-nine exquisite botanical paintings produced since 1997 at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. These include some of the ancient, almost iconic, flowering trees and shrubs in the pleasure grounds of the Lost Gardens; cut-flower, fruit and vegetable crops from the award-winning productive gardens, and wild flowers and fungi from Heligan’s wider estate. The book includes an introduction by the artist, and spaces to record notes or birthdays for each day of the year.
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| The Cornwall Gardens Guide: Second Edition
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| By Douglas Ellory Pett, with additional research by Margaret Grose
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| ISBN: 0906720486
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| CATEGORY: County Gardens Guides
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Completely revised and updated, the second edition of The Cornwall Gardens Guide contains many gardens that have opened to the public since the Guide was first published in 2003. Described as ‘an essential companion for anyone who enjoys visiting Cornwall's wealth of gardens’, this book is a comprehensive visitor’s guide to over 130 gardens in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly open to the public. Written by the author of the standard reference work The Parks and Gardens of Cornwall, with additional research by Margaret Grose, the text is thoroughly researched, informative, accessible and up to date.
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| Golden Harvest: The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
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| By Andrew Tompsett
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| ISBN: 090672046X
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Daffodil growing has been an important industry in Cornwalll and the Isles of Scilly for over 100 years. Today, despite competition from flower imports, the industry remains strong: Cornish daffodil farms are some of the largest and most efficient in the world, supplying flowers and bulbs to all parts of the UK, to Continental Europe, and to the USA, bringing pleasure to millions, and employment and profit to the county.
Golden Harvest is the first book to tell the story of the industry.
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| Cornish Fishing and Seafood
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| By Carol Trewin & Adam Woolfitt
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| ISBN: 0906720427
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Did you know that more than 50 species of fish and shellfish are regularly landed in Cornwall? Or that stocks of most of these are thriving?
Cornish Fishing and Seafood is not just another book of fish recipes, although more than 20 recipes demonstrate how easy it is to cook the best, freshest fish. It also celebrates seafood and sea fishing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and reveals why our only truly wild source of food, harvested by the last of the hunter-gatherers, is special, to be treated with respect. It takes the lid off the myths and misunderstandings surrounding sea fishing, to discover the real state of fishing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
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| Creative Gardeners
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| By Douglas Ellory Pett
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| ISBN: 0906720419
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An inspirational book for gardeners about gardens. Twenty private gardens – mostly designed and brought into existence by their owners – have been chosen for their diversity, creativity and skill in cultivation. They range from a former marsh to moors and open upland; from frost pockets to areas of excessive rainfall.
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| Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs
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| By Philip McMillan Browse
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| ISBN: 0906720400
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Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs celebrates the abundance of the award-winning productive gardens at the Lost Gardens of Heligan. With derelict structures restored to working order, the range of traditional crops now cultivated and harvested by hand is beginning to reflect the output of the gardens in their late Victorian heyday.
This book tells the stories of reconstruction behind increasingly well-known features – the beautiful apple arches in the Vegetable Garden, the unique pineapple pit in the Melon Yard and the historically significant Paxton House in the Flower Garden.
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| Gourmet Cornwall
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| By Carol Trewin & Adam Woolfitt
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| ISBN: 0906720397
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Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2005, for the Best Local Cookbook published in the UK, Gourmet Cornwall celebrates the superb food and drink of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; the dedicated men and women who produce it, and the chefs who create some of the finest contemporary dishes. This is the first in-depth study of regional food in Britain today: real food, with real taste. For foodlovers everywhere.
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| A Passion for Plants: The Treseders of Truro
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| By Suzanne Treseder
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| ISBN: 0906720389
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In 1857 three brothers left Cornwall for Australia in search of gold. One of them, John Garland Treseder, took with him vegetable seeds, and started a market garden. Soon there were nurseries, and a shop in Sydney, and John Treseder designed parks and gardens in New South Wales and Victoria.
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| Master of the Sea: Charles Napier Hemy RA, RWS
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| By Margaret Powell, Introduction by Brian Stewart
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| ISBN: 0906720370
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Charles Napier Hemy, 1841–1917, was ‘the most accomplished marine painter of his generation. His intimate knowledge of the sea was central to his art – the ocean’s swell, its power, strength and dangers are all captured with a brilliance rarely equalled and never surpassed.’ (Brian Stewart, Director, Falmouth Art Gallery, in the Introduction.
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| Glendurgan: A Personal Memoir of a Garden in Cornwall
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| By Charles Fox
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| ISBN: 0906720354
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‘Once … I was sitting on a stile and seven swans flew over my head, inches away. I walked on and came across an entire family of foxes at play. For both the animal and the man there was no more beautiful place in which to be raised.
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| The Devon Gardens Guide
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| By Rosemary Lauder
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| ISBN: 0906720346
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A comprehensive visitor’s guide to some 130 gardens in Devon open to the public, by the author of numerous books on the county. The text is thoroughly researched, informative, accessible, and up to date. The Guide is copiously illustrated with colour photographs, and includes a general introduction to the geology, climate and garden history of Devon; a list of nurseries and garden centres in the county, and a calendar of opening times.
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| Gardening on the Edge: Drawing on the Cornwall Experience
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| By Philip McMillan Browse, General Editor
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| ISBN: 0906720338
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Ten respected and practising gardeners, and one of the world’s foremost evolutionary biologists write on their experiences of ‘gardening on the edge’ – at the edge of knowledge, and at the edge of the land.
Since the plant introductions of the nineteenth century, Cornwall has been at the forefront of the art and science of gardening – its gardens and gardeners famous world-wide. Gardening on the Edge continues this tradition: it describes a host of plants introduced since the mid-twentieth century – all particularly suited to western seaboard gardens and mild, temperate climates.
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| Concrete Works
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| By Carole Vincent, with photographs by Clive Boursnell
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| ISBN: 090672063X
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Carole Vincent is an artist working in concrete. In addition to public works like The Bude Light in Cornwall; The Red Carpet in Edinburgh, and Les Jongleurs in Jersey, her book Concrete Works, features more personal work, and the Blue Circle Garden – a medal winner at the 2001 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. With stunning photographs by Clive Boursnell.
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| Warm Frost
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| By Sir Terry Frost
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Until his death in September 2003, Sir Terry Frost, RA, was Britain’s leading abstract artist, and one of our most important painters. His book Warm Frost gives an overview of his life and work. It includes paintings from the 1940s to 2002; sculptures; decorated ceramics and jewellery; poems, and family photos.
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| Things Reconstructed
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| By David Kemp
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David Kemp is a sculptor and storyteller. His public sculptures include The Navigators at London Bridge; King Coal and The Old Transformers in County Durham; Heavy Plant at Sheffield Science Park; Tib Street Horn in Manchester; Brian’s Brain at The Lowry, and Industrial Flame Plants at The Eden Project. This book includes all these, and more.
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| Surf Science: An Introduction to Waves for Surfing
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| By Tony Butt and Paul Russell, with Rick Grigg
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Where do waves come from? What makes every one different? Why do some peel nicely and others just close out? Why, some days, do waves come in sets of six, and others in sets of three? What factors affect the behaviour of a surfing break? Surf Science answers all these questions and many more. Now in its second edition, this is the first book to talk in depth about the science of waves from a surfer’s point of view. It fills the gap between surfing books and waves textbooks, and will help surfers to predict surf.
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| Shrubs for the Milder Counties
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| By W. Arnold-Forster
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First published in 1948, W. Arnold-Forster’s Shrubs for the Milder Counties is a classic in its field. Based on the author’s long practical experience in his garden on a Cornish moor, it covers a wide range of shrubs that can be grown in the milder and maritime parts of Britain, and reviews many hardy shrubs that can be grown successfully in the colder counties.
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| Plants of Eden
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| By Louise Frost and Alistair Griffiths
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| ISBN: 090672029X
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Published to coincide with the opening of The Eden Project in 2001, Plants of Eden is the first book to focus on the plants themselves. Lavishly illustrated, it covers plants in each of the three biomes – Humid Tropics, Warm Temperate and Temperate. Plants of Eden fascinates and informs.
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