Navsbooks>Industrial Dartmoor> A Hundred Years on Dartmoor paperback
My earlier Kindle re-publishing of William Crossing’s classic description of Dartmoor in the 19th Century has now been followed by a paperback edition.
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This new edition of the book has a modern crisp format and includes additional comments by myself to bring the book up to date. If you love Dartmoor’s history, and have not managed to obtain a second hand copy of an earlier edition then this is an essential addition to your bookshelf.
Crossing’s book has a chapter on the industry of Dartmoor, but unfortunately this did not include any photographs of the industries. No doubt, scenes of industry ravishing the moor’s surface, did not appeal to the photographer’s of the early 20th Century, who instead were drawn to the more photogenic scenery of clapper bridges, tors, churches and stone crosses. Perhaps this is the same today, if industrial historians in a hundred years time were to look back to today for evidence it would be in the background of other topics that the fascinating detail would be found.
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