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...
_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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
13. CHAPTER XIII THE POETIC SPIRIT_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...
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...
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--...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...