Summary
Today Dartmoor is regarded as one vast and beautiful icon of the Westcountry. As one of the region's two national parks, we universally revere the great rocky plateau and celebrate it. But not so long ago the place was deemed to be a wild and unwanted nuisance.
Here's a remarkable fact presented by an excellent new book on the subject of Dartmoor: "In 1833 efforts to compile a bibliography of Dartmoor writings revealed just over 50 texts, most of those published in the 19th century. In 1992, when the Dartmoor Bibliography was published, over 7,000 books and articles were recorded - excluding the region's fiction..."See the full content of this document
Extract
Our Wild Wonderland
Those are the findings of Patricia Milton, who has written The Discovery of Dartmoor - a 256-page illustrat...
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