When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in
Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him
to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him
off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the
most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual
landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tintagel,
from the mysterious china-clay region to the granite tors and tombs
of the far south-west, Marsden assembles a chronology of Britain's
attitude to place. In archives, he uncovers the life and work of
other enthusiasts before him - medieval chroniclers and Tudor
topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial
poets and abstract painters. Drawing also on his travels from
further afield, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not
just at the heart of our own history but of man's perennial
struggle to belong on this earth.
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