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A 1911 collection of traditional Devon verses and metrical sayings, with Crossing's own historical notes on the stories behind them, including "Childe the Hunter" and "Snow on Dartmoor."
Crossing's 1888 account of rambles across Dartmoor's tors and combes, one of his earliest full-length books on the moor.
A warm, opinionated portrait of the vanishing world of the English country house, squire, parson and village, much of it from his own Lew Trenchard.
A tale of the Cornish coast: the tyrannical old squire Hender Gaverock and his two sons, and the ruin that follows the rebellious Constantine.
When Anthony Cleverdon rescues the fierce, unhappy Urith Malvine from a fire raging across the moor, their romance reignites the old feud between the Cleverdons and the Crymes.
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.
At Bratton Clovelly, Honor Luxmore, the frugal, red-cloaked 'Red Spider', keeps her widower father's house and cares for her siblings.
On the moor around Vixen Tor and the Walkham, a mother is brought to give evidence against her own son, a poacher, and to see him sent to prison.
