Many thanks to the large audience who supported the genial and entertaining preview of this unique publication at Friday’s book launch and performance evening (12th Dec 2014 in Sidmouth). EDA is especially grateful to the author,Peter Nasmyth, and to his co-researcher on East Devon Literature, Mike Temple, who also organised the performance. Peter’s landscape photographs were a stunning backdrop to renditions by such notables as John Betjeman,Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, Ron Delderfield, and Sir Walter Raleigh…all much admired!
If you missed the performance, here’s some more about the book:
A correspondent writes, “I think this book would make a good Christmas present, better still keep it as it has lots of literary walks and a map included.” . Copies (£15.99) available from bookshops in Ottery St Mary and in Sidmouth, or from the publisher (see below).
As a first, full literary companion to the East Devon area, A4 in size and full colour, this beautiful book combines large photographs with serious research, quotations, observations on literature and landscape. Included also is a map, information on the writers, an index and bibliography, plus directions as to where the authors walked in the area so readers can follow in their footsteps. The aim is both to celebrate and draw attention to this unique and threatened part of rural England. Birthplace of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir Walter Raleigh, a setting for stories and poems by Jane Austen, H.G Wells, John Fowles, C. Day Lewis, John Betjeman, Beatrix Potter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others, East Devon remains as attractive to writers today as ever. The publication of this book aims to help keep it this way.
For SEE INSIDE page (Green and pleasant land) go to http://www.mtapublications.co.uk
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