We See Devon By Val Doone

Chapters, I. Devon in General, II. East Devon, III. From Exe to Teign, IV. Tor Bay, V. The South Hams, VI. Plymouth and the Drake Country, VII. Dartmoor, VIII. Northwest Devon, IX. Around Barnstaple, X. The Exe Valley, XI. Devon's Natural History, contents, Animals, Anstey's Cove, Appledore, Ashburton, Ashprington, Aune Head Mire, Avon river, Avon Wick, Axe valley, Axmouth, Babbacombe (Plate), Baggy Point, Bampton, Rev. S Baring-Gould, Barnstaple, Dukes of Bedford, Beer, Beer Head, Beesands, Belstone, Berry Head, Berrynarbor, Bickington, Bickleigh, Exe valley, Bideford, Bigbury-On-Sea, Birds, Blackmoor Gate, Blackpool Sands, Bolt Head, Bolt Tail, St Boniface, Bovey Tracey, North Bovey, Bow Creek, Braunton, Braunton Burrows, Braunton Light, Brixham (Plate), Sir James Raja Brooke, Вrushford, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Buckland Abbey (Plate), Buckland-in-the-Moor, Buckland Monachorum, Bucks Cross, Bucks Mill, Budleigh Salterton, Burgoyne family, Burrator, Bampfyld Moore Carew, Cattewater, Cawsand Beacon, Chagford, China clay, Chittlehamholt, Chittlehampton, Chumleigh, Churston, Cider, Clovelly (Plate), Cockington, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Colyford, Combe Martin, William Cookworthy, County Gates, Coverdale, Miles, CowIeу Bridge, Crediton, River Creedy, Crowndale, Croyde, Croyde Bay,  Cullompton, River Dart,  Dartmeet, Dartmoor (Plates), Dartmouth (Plate), Royal Naval College, John Davis, landscape near Dawlish (Plate), Dawlish Warren, Daniel Defoe, the Devil in Devon legend, Countess Amicia de Redvers  of Devon, East Devon, North-west Devon,  Dittisham, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Francis Drake, Drake's Island, Dunsford, East Budleigh, East Portlemouth, River Erme, Ermemouth, River Exe and valley, Exeter (Plate) Exmoor,  Exmouth, Fairy Cross, Ferns, Fingle Bridge (Plate), Fish, Flowering plants, Fremington, Geology, Adrian Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Great Torrington, Grenville family, Haldon Moors, Hallsands, Hangman Hill (Plate), Hartland, Hartland Point, Hartland Quay (Plate), Hatherleigh, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Richard Hawkins, Hay Tor, Hayes Barton, Heathfield, Heddon's Mouth, Hexworthy, Holne, Holne Bridge, Holne Chase, Holsworthy, Honiton, Hope Cove, Hopes Nose, Horns Cross, Ilfracombe, Ilsham, Inner Hope (Plate),Inston, Ivybridge (Plate), John Jewel   Bishop of Salisbury, Kent's Cavern, Kingsbridge, Charles Kingsley, Kingswear, John Gay, John Leland, Lydford, River Lyn, Lynmouth, Lynton, Malborough, Thomas Marwood , Marytavy, Meadfoot, Meavy, Modbury, Moreton Hampstead, Morte Point, Morthoe, Natural History, Barnstaple Bay the Neck, Ness Teignmouth, New Bridge, Newton Abbot, Newton Ferrers, Newton St Cyres (Plate), North Bovey (Plate), North Molton, North Tawton, Northlew, Noss Mayo, Oakford, Oddicombe, Okehampton, River Okement, Otter valley, Otterton, Ottery St Mary (Plate), Paignton, Parracombe, Dawlish Parson and Clerk, Petertavy,

Pixies, River Plym, Plymouth (Plate), Plymouth Hoe, Dartmoor Ponies (Plate), Exmoor, Postbridge, Poundstock, Prawle Point, Sir Walter Raleigh, Jack Rattenbury, Raybarrow Pool, Richard Coeur de Lion, 38 Ringmore (Plate), Rippon Tor, Roundham Head, Saddle Tor, Salcombe, Sandyway Cross, Seaton, Sheepstor, Sheepstor Village, Sid valley, Sidford, Sidmouth (Plate), Slapton Ley, Slapton Sands, South Brent, South Hams, South Molton, South Tawton (Plate), South Zeal (Plate), merchant Stamford, Starcross, Starehole Bay, Start Bay, Start Point, Steps Bridge, Sticklepath, Stoke Fleming, Stuckeridge Bridge, Sutton Pool, Swimbridge, River Tamar, Tavistock, River Tavy, River Taw, Taw Marsh, River Teign (Plate), Teignmouth, Thurlstone, Tiverton, Topsham, Tor Bay, Torcross, Torquay, River Torridge, Totnes, Sir William de Тгасу, Trees, Trow Hill, Tuckenhay, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Two Bridges, Walls Hill, Warren House Inn, Watermouth Bay, Weather, Westward Но!, White Cliff Seaton, Widdecombe-in-the-Моог, Prince William of Orange, William of Malmesbury, J. A Williamson, Wistmans Wood, Woodbury Common, Woolacombe, Richard Nicholls Worth, Yarcombe, River Yealm, Yelverton, River Yeo.

I was attracted to this book not by the exterior but by the large black and white plates of scenic Devon around the 1950s. It is written by a traveller of the time exploring the county. The people and places listed above are included. The book sums up a Devonian aptly: - Quote: “ They are what they are, and, unlike so much of the rest of the world, they do not feel it necessary to pretend to be anything else” This still holds true today some 55 years after the book was published. Whilst somewhat out of date today if you are planning to explore the county however if you wish to know what a traveller’s perspective in Devon was like in the 1950s then the book reflects the period well and gives insight into the lives of the locals of the time.

Val Doone’s photography of Devon captures in photographs landscapes of an undeveloped Devon and these plates although aged are worthy of note.

94 pages

10. x 18 x 24cms

Weight 420gms

Condition: Ex Library Book with laminated exterior. No Jacket. Aged.

UK £20.00 plus Postage & Packaging