Buy this book on-line Poucher, W.A : The West CountryConstable, London, 1984 ISBN 0094659400
Fine copy in fine dust jacket, Tall 8vo, 203 pp. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Poucher, W.A : The West Country. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. POUCHER**, W[alter]. A: : THE WEST COUNTRYLONDON.CONSTABLE,1984. ISBN 0094659400.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,crisp,glossy laminated,wrap-around
scenic,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj [Kynance Cove,Cornwall]; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present and spine/backstrip not sunned nor faded.
Both upper+rear boards' corners minimally bumped.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.
Bright,clean,unblemished,publisher's original pale blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-201pp [paginated+unpaginated double-page,full- page colour scenic photograph and 5pp blanks to rear] includes half-title, double-page scenic colour photographic illustrated title page [Dartmoor ponies near Dunnabridge],photographs list,author preface,38 full-page,double-page colour scenic photographs and many single-page, full page colour,scenic photographs,and remainder 3/4,double-page colour scenic photographs and text.
Walter Poucher has been climbing and photographing mountains for nearly half a century,and is Britain's most famous and most prolific mountain photographer,with some thirty-five books and many thousands of photographs in book form to his credit.
But in 'The West Country' he turns his attention away from mountains to England's
most spectacular coastline,where precipitous headlands confront the waves and fishing villages and sandy coves nestle at their feet.To the study of cliff
scenery and seascapes he brings the same inspired skill and perfectionist attention
to detail which characterise his best-selling books of pictures of Britain's and Europe's mountain peaks.The term 'West Country' is often used to include Dorset and Somerset,but this book concentrates on Devon and Cornwall - that south-westernmost peninsular of England thrusting out into the Atlantic.The pictures were taken over many years,and as well as as the grandeur of the coastline they capture the wild and sombre beauty of Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor with its weird, towering,granite tors.
The photographs are arranged in sequence,
starting with Dartmoor and then following the South Devon coast around through Cornwall to Land's End,continuing north along Cornwall's coast and finishing with the cliffs and villages of North Devon.
Visitors can thus easily follow Walter Poucher's journey through England's best-loved and most beautiful holiday region,either by car or on foot.One of 6 (then 1984) large-format books/titles published by Constable,by this author, each containing 100 colour photographs with accompanying text.See also rja1320 [LAKELAND PANORAMA.],and rja25197 [WALES]
for either other titles in this series or other author/subject related titles/books.
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