A Dartmoor Village
A late sequence of poems drawn from the life of a single Dartmoor village, from one who had watched the moor for half a century.
A late sequence of poems drawn from the life of a single Dartmoor village, from one who had watched the moor for half a century.
Phillpotts in his own voice: verse and prose wandering the byways, moors and coasts of Devon and Cornwall.
Harvey Porter, a boy runaway from a reformatory, talks his way into the Brunel's Tower pottery and into the trust of its widowed master, George Easterbrook.
A gathering of Dartmoor stories and sketches: moor-folk, legends and the life of the high country, from a master of the local tale.
On the southern moor about Holne, the story of Alison and the farming folk around her.
A gallery of Devon's eccentrics, worthies, rogues and odd happenings, gathered by an inveterate collector of local history and lore.
Phillpotts's first Dartmoor book: sketches and short tales of moor life that opened the vein he would work for the next sixty years.
A convict escaped from the war prison on Dartmoor is nursed back to health by Eve; as he recovers, the watcher becomes the watched.
Eldad Guavas, a Dartmoor tinner, falls foul of the harsh Stannary law for possessing gold reserved to the Crown.