Vanishing Cornwall [Hardcover]

Daphne and photographs by Christian Browning du Maurier (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1972 (1972)
• ASIN: B000I1S63E
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,201,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VANISHING CORNWALL, January 21, 2010

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Neil Budock (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Vanishing Cornwall (Virago Modern Classics) (Hardcover)

I had read many Daphne De Maurier books in the past but wanted something more factual about the most beautiful part of Britian. My home for nearly forty years was Cornwall & this book highlighted all that was so historic and reminicent of an era gone by. She completes the complete essence of being Cornish and of begining to understand how culturally different Cornwall is. It's celtic beginings transend through the ages so clearly identified by De Maurier. An great book for any Cornishman or Woman to read and enjoy. Her book truly reflects what has happened in Cornwall to the prescent day particullary over the last hundred years.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Confused, April 9, 2010

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V. Littin "d.littin" (colorado springs, co) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vanishing Cornwall (Virago Modern Classics) (Hardcover)

I recently checked out of the library what I thought was this book. Especially since it mentions that it is a hardcover book.
However, upon opening it to my dismay - it is and it isn't. It has none of the pictures of Daphne and her family, which is why I so wanted the book. The other book under the same name had lengthy text quoted from her books, and a detailed map of Cornwall, and the places she wrote about. Which books were from where. Very informative. I will not return this book. It is nice, it is just not as biographical as the one I got from the library.Vanishing Cornwall (Virago Modern Classics)