Cornish Characters and Strange Events
By Sabine Baring-Gould
Length23h 7m
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Excerpt: "The isolation in which Cornwall had stood has tended to develop in it much originality of character; and the wildness of the coast has bred a hardy race of seamen and smugglers; the mineral wealth, moreover, drew thousands of men underground, and the underground life of the mines has a peculiar effect on mind and character: it is cramping in many ways, but it tends to develop a good deal of religious enthusiasm, that occasionally breaks forth in wild forms of fanaticism. Cornwall has produced admirable sailors, men who have won deathless renown in warfare at sea, as "Old Dreadnought" Boscawen, Pellew, Lord Exmouth, etc., and daring and adventurous smugglers, like "The King of Prussia," who combined great religious fervour with entire absence of scruple in the matter of defrauding the king's revenue."
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length23 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
26THE PENNINGTONS
2ILLUSTRATIONS
27DOCTOR GLYNN-CLOBERY
3WILLIAM PENGELLY, GEOLOGIST
28THREE MEN OF MOUSEHOLE
4SIR CHARLES WILLS, K.B.
29DOLLY PENTREATH
5LIEUTENANT GOLDSMITH AND THE LOGAN ROCK
30ROBERT JEFFERY OF POLPERRO
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6HUGH PETERS, THE REGICIDE
31ADMIRAL RICHARD DARTON THOMAS
7JAMES POLKINGHORNE, THE WRESTLER
32COMMANDER JOHN POLLARD
8HENRY TRENGROUSE, INVENTOR
33THE CASE OF BOSAVERN PENLEZ
9THE BOTATHAN GHOST
34SAMUEL FOOTE
10JOHN COUCH ADAMS, ASTRONOMER
35THE LAST LORD MOHUN
11DANIEL GUMB
36THE LAST LORD CAMELFORD
12LAURENCE BRADDON
37WILLIAM NOYE
13THOMASINE BONAVENTURA
38WILLIAM LEMON
14THE MURDER OF NEVILL NORWAY
39SAMUEL DREW
15SIR WILLIAM LOWER, KNT.
40THE SIEGE OF SKEWIS
16THE PIRATES AT PENZANCE
41THE VOYAGE OF JOHN SANDS
17DAME KILLIGREW
42CHARLES INCLEDON
18TWO NATURALISTS IN CORNWALL
43THE MURDER OF RICHARD CORYTON
19SIR JOHN CALL, BART.
44SIR JAMES TILLIE, KNT.
20JOHN KNILL
45LIEUTENANT JOHN HAWKEY
21THOMAS TREGOSS
46DR. DANIEL LOMBARD
22ANTHONY PAYNE
47THE DREAM OF MR. WILLIAMS
23NEVIL NORTHEY BURNARD
48SIR ROBERT TRESILIAN
24SIR GOLDSWORTHY GURNEY, KNT., INVENTOR
49PIRATE TRELAWNY
25THE JANES
50JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM
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