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includes postagePolperro's smuggling story
by Jeremy Rowett Johns
Polperro’s Smuggling Story is told through extracts from the letter-books of Zephaniah Job, the schoolteacher who became known as the ‘Smugglers’ Banker’ for his role in the highly organised contraband trade carried on in this Cornish fishing village at the end of the 18th century. Featuring...
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£6.00 - £8.10
includes postageLewis Harding - Cornwall's pioneer photographer
By Philip Correll
Lewis Harding – Cornwall’s Pioneer Photographer is an extensively illustrated biography of Lewis Harding, one of the earliest exponents of the emerging art of photography in Cornwall in the mid-19th century. The book contains nearly 100 of Harding’s remarkable photographs of Polperro and its inhabitants, many of...
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£9.00 - £11.10
includes postageThe Looe Island Story: An Illustrated History of St. George's Island
By Mike Dunn
The Looe Island Story is the first fully illustrated history of Cornwall’s most beautiful and mysterious island. Once part of a monastic settlement, St. George’s or Looe Island is today owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Author Mike Dunn traces its history from earliest times, describing its...
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£9.00 - £11.10
includes postageMarooned
by James Derriman
In 1807 a British naval captain, Warwick Lake, marooned an 18-year-old member of his crew from Polperro, Cornwall, on the tiny uninhabited island of Sombrero in the West Indies. The seaman, Robert Jeffery, escaped to the USA but when the news reached England, a search was...
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£8.00 - £10.10
includes postageLucy’s Diary
By Lucy Rodd
Lucy’s Diary is the journal of 15-year-old Lucy Rodd who travelled with her parents from their home in Rockford, Illinois in the USA to England during the summer of 1870. Her account of the voyage across the Atlantic and the people and places she visited in...
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£14.00 - £16.10
includes postageJonathan Couch's Cornish Birds
Edited by R. D. Penhallurick
Dr. Jonathan Couch (1789-1870) of Polperro was Cornwall’s foremost naturalist in the 19th century, whose importance has been likened to that of Gilbert White. Jonathan Couch’s Cornish Birds draws on the Royal Institution of Cornwall’s extensive collection of his material, in particular his hitherto unpublished...
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£26.00 - £28.10
includes postageHistory of Polperro
By Dr. Jonathan Couch
Since it was first published in 1871, the History of Polperro by Dr. Jonathan Couch, physician, naturalist and Polperro’s foremost inhabitant, has remained a popular and much sought after publication. Now, more than 120 years later, this specially produced casebound facsimile edition of the original will...
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includes postageThe Smugglers' Banker: The Story of Zephaniah Job of Polperro
The Smugglers’ Banker reveals for the first time the full story of Zephaniah Job, the remarkable Cornishman who not only masterminded the flourishing contraband trade in Polperro during the Napoleonic wars but also the privateers whose adventures during the wars with France and Spain led to the capture of handsome...
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£5.00 - £7.10
includes postagePortrait of Polperro
By Sheila de Burlet
Polperro is celebrated as one of the most beautiful villages in Britain but its history is less well-known and it is this intriguing and often exciting tale that Sheila de Burlet tells in Portrait of Polperro. Chapters deal with the earliest records; the vital harvest from...