Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Kiko
None
Doctor by Nature
Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), surgeon apothecary of Polperro, was one of the pioneering natural historians of his day, paving the way for others such as Darwin and Huxley to follow. This account of his life and work tells the story of a man who, born in humble circumstances, rose to become one of the leading natural scientists of the 19th century.
Smuggling in Cornwall
Jeremy Johns provides a pictorial history of smuggling in Cornwall.
Another Man's Shoes
Another Man's Shoes is a gripping first-hand account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying. Written just after the war, Sven Somme vividly describes his 200-mile trek across the mountains, pursued by German soldiers, in a bid to reach Sweden and freedom in 1944. Sixty years later, his daughter Ellie set out on foot with her sister to retrace their father's flight from Nazi-occupied Norway, meeting some of the people who helped him along the way. In the Introduction to her father's story, she recounts the emotional moment when a pair of her father's shoes, exchanged for mountain boots, were returned to her by one family who sheltered him along the way and pays special tribute to her uncle Iacob who was also arrested and later executed.
Smugglers' Banker
The story of Zephaniah Job, the remarkable Cornishman who not only masterminded the flourishing contraband trade in Polperro
Rockhopper Copper
The story of the Tristan islanders, told by a direct descendant of the first settler there 200 years ago.
Invisible Crying Tree
The true story of an extraordinary friendship In 1992, Christopher Morgan, a farmer, began writing to Tom Shannon, a lifer, inside for murder. Through their correspondence, a strong and honest friendship developed between the two men whose lives were poles apart, showing friendship and respect can prevail in the most unlikely circumstances.
Lewis Harding
This is an illustrated biography of Lewis Harding, one of the earliest exponents of the emerging art of photography in Cornwall in the mid-19th century. It contains nearly 100 of Harding's photographs of Polperro and its inhabitants.
Thirty Secret Years
The story of how one man, working in obscurity and total secrecy, influenced the course of world history over 30 years of war and peace
