About the Book
Table of Contents:
GOING SLOW IN SOUTH DEVON & DARTMOOR
A taste of South Devon & Dartmoor, Getting there & around, Some favourite visits, Books & media, How to use this book
1 THE EXE & TEIGN ESTUARIES
Getting there & around, Essential Exeter, The Exe Estuary, Dawlish Warren & Dawlish, The Teign Valley, South of the Teign
2 THE ENGLISH RIVIERA: TORBAY
Getting there & around, North of Torbay, Torquay & around, Paignton to Brixham, Brixham
3 TOTNES & THE RIVER DART
Getting there & around, Totnes, Dartington & around, The middle & lower River Dart, Riverside villages, Dartmouth & around, Kingswear & the coast toward Brixham
4 THE SOUTH HAMS & DEVON'S FAR SOUTH
Getting there & around, The Slapton area, Approaching the South Hams from Dartmoor, Devon's far south, The southern beaches, River Avon, Bigbury-on-Sea & Burgh Island, Ayrmer Cove, Westcombe Beach & Ringmore, Modbury & area
5 PLYMOUTH, THE TAMAR VALLEY & SOUTHERN DARTMOOR
Getting there & around, Plymouth, South & southeast of Plymouth, The Yealm Estuary, The Tamar Valley, East of the Tavy, Southern Dartmoor
6 THE EASTERN FRINGE OF DARTMOOR
Getting there & around, The northern Teign Valley, Newton Abbot & area, Ashburton, Buckfastleigh & area
7 THE NORTHWESTERN FRINGE OF DARTMOOR
Getting there & around, The Beacon Villages, Okehampton & around, Lydford & around
8 D ARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK
Dartmoor: the hand of man, Dartmoor tin & the stannary towns, Getting there & around, Chagford, Castle Drogo & the north, The east, Bovey Tracey, The high moor, Southwest Dartmoor, The western moor, Off the B3357
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About the Author :
Hilary Bradt co-founded Bradt Travel Guides in 1974, but now lives in semi-retirement in Seaton, East Devon. After 40 years of writing guidebooks to Africa and South America, she has embraced her chosen home to the extent of insisting that such a large, varied and beautiful county deserved three Slow guides, not just one. A keen walker, she has covered many miles of the South West Coast Path and inland footpaths, as well as enjoying Dartmoor on someone else's legs - those of a horse. Most Saturdays see her taking part in one of Devon's Parkruns (5k, but she's appropriately slow) and during the summer a swim in the sea, just a few minutes away, is always a pleasure. She is a productive member of the South West Sculptors' Association and lectures regularly on travel-related topics at libraries and literary festivals, both in Devon and further afield.
Janice Booth considers Devon her 'home county' and settled here in 2001, after many decades in various other parts of Britain. As a wartime toddler she lived briefly in Colyton (East Devon), where her mother took her 'to the seaside' at Seaton via a branch of the old Southern Railway that ran where the Seaton Tramway now rattles to and fro. On family holidays she tasted her first clotted cream in Sidmouth aged eight, rode on the Burgh Island tractor aged ten, and rock-hopped along the shore near Wembury in her early teens. She's fascinated by Devon folklore, has co-written (with Hilary) Bradt's Slow Guide to East Devon & the Jurassic Coast, and - further afield - is co-author of the Bradt's Rwanda. She lives within sound of the sea in Seaton, where she runs two poetry-reading groups and enjoys exploring the area on local buses.
Review :
'Eye-opening and wonderful' India Knight, The Sunday Times Magazine
'Packed full of knowledge of the area.' Tavistock Times Gazette
