Like a Buried City by Matthi Ab Dewi

Like a Buried City by Matthi Ab Dewi

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Like a Buried City by Matthi Ab Dewi

Cornwall is a land like no other where a Celtic culture struggles to hold its own against the onslaught of the twenty-first century. The Pengilleys are very much part of that modern life and hardly stop to consider their own roots-until Grandad dies and leaves a chest of dusty papers and an old pot.


The ensuing journey to uncover this strange past soon finds the family tied across more than two hundred years to Jacka, Mary, and their three children, living in a tiny village on the rugged coast of West Cornwall. The Pengilleys of the late eighteenth century battled poverty, dangerous mines, and the eradication of their whole way of life by a new language taking hold in their parish-English.


Jacka sets about a plan to save his family and cultural heritage but faces challenges which break his heart and nearly cost him his own life. Can his descendants decode the puzzle he left in the Cornish language which, by the twenty-first century, lay beneath the surface-like a hidden city?

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ISBN 13 9781782012962
ISBN 10 1782012966
Title Like a Buried City
Author Matthi Ab Dewi
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Evertype
Year published 2021-11-01
Number of pages 234
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.