THE WEST COUNTRY Peter Sager 1 873429 08 8 £14.95 276pp 146 colour plates, illustrations, diagrams and maps 2 fold out maps full indexes practical information 205 x 105 mm portrait Altogether a find Salisbury Journal A brilliant book. His sensitive and informative writing of such locations makes me want to seek them out and soak them up, even for a second time Colin Brent, The Tavistock Times Gazette The most imaginative guides to Britain's heritage are the regional 'portraits' by Peter Sager Christina Hardyment The varied and enduring character of the area comes to the fore as Peter travels, east to west, and hardly misses a thing Country Walking Peter Sager's guides... are voyages of discovery through a landscape which is both familiar and unfamiliar Devon Life, Totnes Peter Sager, widely acclaimed for his guidebooks to Wales and East Anglia, now turns his attention to the West Country. From the mysteries of Stonehenge, behind barbed wire, to the suboceanic tin mines of Cornwall, from Hardy's cottage to the Tintagel of Tennyson and Swinburne, from the Marquess of Bath's Kama Sutra paintings at Longleat to the light-basking work of the St Ives School, passing by sculptors, poets, furniture makers and eccentrics of all kinds, this is another comprehensive and mercurial guide by the 'unsung genius' of travelling in Britain. The author, Peter Sager, was born in 1945. He is an art critic, radio editor, and reporter. In 1989 he won Germany's most prestigious award for journalism, the Egon-Erwin-Kisch award. He has written many books on art and travel, particularly about Britain (Wales, East Anglia, and South East England, all available from Pallas Athene). Peter Sager lives with his wife and daughter in Hamburg. The translator, David Henry Wilson, was born in 1937. A university lecturer, he also writes plays, children's books and novels. He lives with his family in Somerset.