Des Hannigan

Tickets

£6

Location

St John's Hall, Penzance

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Dates

Thu 6th July, 2023
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11:00 am |
Finish time 12.30. the event will be held in the Alverne Room

About this event

Penzance Literary Festival presents: 'Cornwall Beyond the Coast Path'.

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.

Contact

01736363545 | https://theacornpenzance.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173643688

Accessibility

Details

Step-free access to building. Lift

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