I love this book, partly because it’s an old-fashioned testimonial of love to the place DuMaurier grew up. Despite the fact the she had a 55-year history with Cornwall when this book was first published in 1967, she and her son Christian Browning traveled around the region, Browning taking photos and DuMaurier researching by talking to residents and searching out villages and sights they suggested. The result is a book that covers myth and history, and, most interestingly, draws out the ways in which Cornwall influenced British literature, from King Arthur to the Brontes to her own works. I rescued this one from Goodwill; otherwise I never would have know about it.