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#1 The Great Western Railway made it all the way to Penzance in 1867, crossing the Tamar River on the Cornwall-Devon border. The line breached the ungoverned spaces between Cornwall and the rest of England and brought some of the earliest tourists to the county.
#2 The end of the line is used to explain the high numbers of rough sleepers in the area: people end up here...
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WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2021
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
A SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction' William Dalrymple
'A beautiful account of immersion in an alien world' Philip Marsden, Guardian
There is the Cornwall Lamorna...
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
A SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction' William Dalrymple
'A beautiful account of immersion in an alien world' Philip Marsden, Guardian
There is the Cornwall Lamorna...
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"From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful. Before arriving in Newlyn, a Cornish fishing village at the end of the railway line, Lamorna Ash was told that no fisherman would want a girl joining an expedition. Weeks later, the only female on board a trawler called the Filadelfia, she is heading...
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