27/02/2021
THE NORTH-WEST DEVON COAST
a celebration of cliffs and seashore from the Hartland Peninsula to the Taw-Torridge Estuary
(Peter Keene) Thematic Trails (2014). ISBN 978-0-948444-65-4 A4 Hardback Edition 128 pages, 215 illustrations. £9.00
https://www.thematic-trails.org/north-devon-coast.htm
A Beautiful book to treasure gives you a taste of the wonderful North Devon coast. The author is the founder of Thematic Trails Charity. Peter Keene £9.00
READ an excerpt from a double-page spread in the Western Morning News of 23 Nov 2013
"Stunning book is a love letter to the coast”
Martin Hesp meets a man who turned his childhood love into a career and lifelong passion."
“[The book] is a real treasure trove of discovery for anyone who loves this unique, remote, deadly, beautiful, historic, geologically remarkable littoral [landscape]. The book is about far more than an account of just one single flight up the coast – it is about one professional geographer’s lifelong love of and passion for the area.
There are hundreds more photographs other than those taken on that memorable flight - many from long, gruelling and perhaps perilous days Peter spent kayaking up and down sections of what is sometimes called The Wreckers’ Coast – and there are notes from what he calls his “commonplace” book, better described as a lifelong diary of jottings and observations taken during the explorations . . . many of these observations, anecdotes and other bits and pieces have now found their way into the new book – attached to the relevant cliff-scapes, head-lands, inaccessible bays, strands, coves, rock stacks, sea-borne forests, hanging valleys, shipwrecks and so on that this most jagged of all coasts hides and nurtures.
North Devon - Hartland Heritage Coast List of Publications.
