The Cornish Riviera

At St. Keyne, a well is said to give mastery in marriage to whichever spouse drinks first—and one bride has already beaten her husband to it.

Sidney Heath follows the railway west from Plymouth, into a peninsula long separated from “England” by the Tamar and the sea. In this early-twentieth-century journey, the railway links scattered towns, Celtic memorials, ancient churches, strange stones and wells whose legends reach into everyday life. Heath pauses at places a traveller might pass by, tracing how landscape, local memory and history make Cornwall unlike any other county. As the outside world draws closer, what will visitors discover beyond the promise of sea air and scenery?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.