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Amid Devonia's Alps, or Wandering and Adventures on Dartmoor
Amid Devonia's Alps or Wandering and Adventures on Dartmoor Author:William Crossing Having reprinted many of William Crossing's works, including his Guide to Dartmoor which has achieved bestseller status, the publishers received numerous suggestions that this most personal of Crossing's works which has long been scarce be given a new lease of life. Written in 1888 when he was 41, Crossing's intention-in his own word... more »s-was 'to give a narration of the incidents of rambles on the moor, with brief descriptions of the principal objects of interest met with in their course'. He dealt exclusively with some of his experiences on Dartmoor in all weathers and at all seasons over the previous twenty years. Nowhere else can we share Crossing's moorland adventures so intimately, for only in this book does he share his routes, reveal his favourite stopping places and give details of his companions. The difficulties of travel at that time are made clear, and we learn that Crossing sometimes used a horse and that he was occasionally accompanied by his wife. Crossing was in the forefront of rational interpretation of Dartmoor's prehistoric antiquities; through his thorough knowledge of the moor, the supernatural held no fear for him, for he was always able to ascribe natural causes to apparently strange phenomena.« less