The Land's End, a Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall
The book The Land's End, a Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall was written by author W H William Henry Hudson Here you can read free online of The Land's End, a Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Land's End, a Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall a good or bad book?
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Yes, it was his own native place which he had come back after forty years to have a look at. His people were there still, and had been there to their certain knowledge over six hundred years. And I dare say, he added, if we knew all we could say a thousand. Five or ten thousand would perhaps have been nearer the truth. And so it is with the common people generally. They have become great roamers nowadays ; they go forth in hundreds every year into all parts of the world, but they appear to cher...ish the old Cornish feeling against marrying among strangers; they return after few or many years to find wives, and that, I conjectured, was the old miner's motive in THE POETIC SPIRIT 189 coming back to his village "just to have a look round." One of the saddest things in this perpetual going and coming is that a great many men, young and in the prime of life, return after contracting miner's disease, usually in Africa ; and though it is known to every one that they are doomed men, they marry and live just long enough to leave a child or two before they are gathered to their fathers.
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