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Location
Dates
Finish time 12.30. the event will be held in the Alverne Room
About this event
A cheerful gallop up and down the Cornish cliffs in the company of Victorian botanists, early miners, writers, photographers and random eccentrics, who for centuries have explored beyond the cliff edges of the Land’s End peninsula and the Lizard, and who have (mostly) come back alive, many to write fascinating books. Seating is secure…but fasten your safety belts.
Des Hannigan earned his first outdoor writing fee of a half-guinea at age fifteen for an article for the national Boy Scout magazine. He then wandered off-piste until becoming a commercial fisherman in his early twenties before finally picking up his writing career twenty years later. For the next thirty years, he was a full-time journalist and writer, mainly for travel publishers such as Lonely Planet. Now retired from trudging wearily around world destinations, he still writes every day and publishes books of prose and verse about Cornwall’s cliffs and sea.
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Details
Step-free access to building. Lift
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