Durdle Door to Dartmoor - Softcover

Llewelyn Powys

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955152348 ISBN 13: 9780955152344

Publisher: The Sundial Press, 2007

Synopsis

(from the publishers website)Never a fashionable writer, in some ways an old-fashioned one, Llewelyn Powys was a man who spoke to the future through his pen, never ceasing to reiterate his doctrine of simple values and personal happiness, and showing in his own eloquence and fortitude the way to its achievement for all mortal beings. In a modern world in thrall to vacuous celebrity and conspicuous greed, it is both timely and refreshing to encounter a mind and spirit which places such value on the very miracle of existence.‘The arrangement of the essays in this collection suggests a sort of tour of Wessex, covering as they do a wide range of places and topics, from Corfe Castle to Lyme Regis, from Cerne Abbas to Studland. But this is no mere tourist handbook, rather an ideal companion to one. Powys was a wonderfully observant writer, whether contemplating the delicate imprints of deer hooves in the parklands of Sherborne or aerial battles between ravens and falcons, or recalling the “pantaloon trousers” of his grandfather at Stalbridge Rectory carrying primroses for his wife or the “round shining belly” of a kitchen kettle that Thomas Hardy said was his earliest memory.’ Blackmore Vale Magazine The Durdle Door - The White Nose - A Bronze Age Valley - Bats Head -The Fossil Forest - The Castle Park of East Lulworth - St Aldhelm’s Head - Studland - Corfe Castle - Herring Gulls - Stalbridge Rectory - The River Yeo - Cerne Abbas - Stinsford Churchyard - The Grave of William Barnes - Weymouth Harbour - Portland - A Famous Wreck - Hardy’s Monument - The Swannery Bell at Abbotsbury - Lyme Regis - Montacute House - Ham Hill - On the Other Side of the Quantocks - Exmoor - Dartmoor

Edition details

• Publisher: The Sundial Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955152348
• ISBN 13: 9780955152344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144