Publisher's Synopsis
Thorn photographers were pioneers of the art in Bude, in Cornwall, UK. This book celebrates their enormous contribution to Cornish history. Over 250 images taken from their original glass negatives, many never before published show the landscape, seascape and shipwrecks of North Cornwall. Show how it was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, packed with personalities and characters, recalling the hard but gentle pace of Cornish life as well as the incidents that live on in the memory of the Cornish people.
