This deep dive into Cornwall's history, landscape and identity should be stacked on service-station counters all along the A303 this summer.

Financial Times

A magnificent work of travel and historical deconstruction – deeply personal, meticulously researched and hugely enjoyable.

Philip Marsden

Tim Hannigan writes with an authentic Cornish voice and a true internationalist's breadth of understanding.

Patrick Gale

Anyone – tourist or resident – who has been seduced by the beauty and strangeness of Cornwall will find Tim Hannigan a congenial guide and companion.

Tom Fort, author of A303: Highway to the Sun

Beautifully researched and written with care.

Wyl Menmuir, author of The Draw of the Sea

Hannigan roams the country on foot, stitching together not only its geography but its histories and communities, while disentangling fact from myth, folk from folklore'

BBC Countryfile