Category: Travel Writing
_England's "observables"--Why I delayed visiting Cornwall--A vision of the Land's End-Flight to St. Ives-Climate-The old town-The fishermen-Their love of children-Drowned babes--The fishing fleet going out at sunset-Old memories suggested-Jackdaws at St. Ives--Feeding the bird...
_The naturalist's mind and men's complex nature--An eminent ethnologist--The use of fools--The simple animal mind--Herring gull and rock-pipit--Man and animals compared--The ima...
12. CHAPTER XII CORNISH HUMOUR_Native humour--Deceptive signs--Adventures in search of humour--Irish and Cornish expression--A traveller in a stony country--The stone-digger--Taking you literally--The danger...
16. CHAPTER XVI A NATIVE NATURALIST_The towans or sandhills--Their destructive progress over the land--Sea rush introduced--The ferry at Lelant--Among the towans--The meadow-pipit--The ferryman--Knowledge of wild...
9. CHAPTER IX THE PEOPLE AND THE FARMS_A primitive type--Unintelligible speech--The little dark man--The prevailing type blonde--The Dawn in Britain---Cornish speech and "naughty English"--Two modes of speaking--Voi...
15. CHAPTER XV A GREAT FROST_A second wave of cold--Migrating goldfinches--Increase in number of wintering birds--Beginning of the frost--At Zennor--Feeding the birds under difficulties--A crippled robin--...
14. CHAPTER XIV WINTER ASPECTS AND A BIRD VISITATION_Back to the land--Golden days in winter--Colour of dead bracken--Lichen on trees in winter--Furze and bracken in winter--A New Forest memory--Effect of rain on dead bracken--An...
11. CHAPTER XI MANNERS AND MORALS_Carew's Survey of Cornwall--Books on Cornwall--Excessive praise and dispraise--Saxon and Celt--Charge of insincerity--"One-and-all" spirit--Dishonesty--Untruthfulness--An Engli...
18. CHAPTER XVIII SOME EARLY FLOWERS_Late flowers at Land's End--Sweet-scented colt's-foot--Its luxuriance and beauty--A pretty and singular girl--A gardener on the colt's-foot--Colt's-foot in Madron churchyard--A...
1. CHAPTER I WINTERING IN WEST CORNWALL_England's "observables"--Why I delayed visiting Cornwall--A vision of the Land's End-Flight to St. Ives-Climate-The old town-The fishermen-Their love of children-Drowned babes-...
7. CHAPTER VII THE BRITISH PELICAN_The gannet--Gannets at St. Ives--At Treen Dinas--Appearance of the bird when fishing--The rise before the fall--Gannet and gull--A contrast--Gull and Great Northern Diver--Gull...
17. CHAPTER XVII THE COMING OF SPRING_Spring in winter--John Cocking--Antics and love-flights of the shag--Herring gull mocked by a jackdaw--Migrating sea-birds--Departure of winter visitors--Appearance of the whea...
21. CHAPTER XX PILGRIMS AT THE LAND'S END_How this book came to be written--Fascination of the Land's End--Aged pilgrims--A vision of the land of rest--An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall---A horde of trippers fr...
8. CHAPTER VIII BIRD LIFE IN WINTER_Land birds--Gulls in bad weather--Jackdaw and donkeys--Birds in the field--Yellowhammers--A miracle of the sun--The common sparrow--An old disused tin-mine--Sparrows roosting i...
10. CHAPTER X AN IMPRESSION OF PENZANCE|PLACES are like faces--a first sight is almost invariably the one that tells you most. When the first sharp, clear impression has grown blurred, or is half forgotten or overlai...
5. CHAPTER V BOLERIUM: THE END OF ALL THE LAND_Cliff scenery and headlands--The Land's End sentiment--Pilgrims and how they are affected--Wilkie Collins--The child's vision--Books on Cornwall--A Trip to the Far West--Sir Hu...
6. CHAPTER VI CASTLES BY THE SEA_The rocky forelands--Delightful days--Colour of the sea--Wild-bird life--Montgomery's Pelican Island--Gulls and daws--We envy birds their wings--The sense of sublimity--Cormora...
4. CHAPTER IV OLD CORNISH HEDGES|EVERY one in England knows what a hedge is--a row of thorn or other hardy bushes originally planted to protect a field, which, when old and unkept, has the appearance and chara...
20. CHAPTER XIX THE FURZE IN ITS GLORY_Fascination of the furze--The furze in literature--Evelyn on the furze--Furze faggots--The beauty the effect of contrast--Large masses of bloom--Various aspects of the furze--F...
3. CHAPTER III CORNWALL'S CONNEMARA|THE coast country at the end or the western extremity of Cornwall presents an aspect wild and rough as any spot in England. The eighty-miles-long county, which some one compare...
2. CHAPTER II GULLS AT ST. IVES_Gulls in fishing harbours--Their numbers and beautiful appearance at St. Ives--Different species--Robbing the fishermen--How they are regarded--The Glaucous gull or Burgomaster...
19. chapter I once wrote on the "Secret of the Charm of Flowers" (-Birdsand Man-, pp. 140-62), in which the peculiar pleasure which certain flowers produce in us was traced to their human colouring--in other words, the _expression_ was due to human...