EARTH PILGRIM?
THE THIRTEEN ‘PUFFS’ in your letters column (Resurgence 248) extolling the BBC Two Earth Pilgrim programme on Dartmoor that featured Satish Kumar surely requires balance if only that of the one dissenting voice.
I spent part of my childhood, from 1939 to 1952, on the edge of the Moor and came to know it as a, yes, beautiful but also menacing, savage and haunted place. Its legends and stories are for the most part disturbing. Its weather isn’t just fickle, it’s untrustworthy – ask the youngsters who’ve done the Ten Tors Walk. Plenty of problems with the environment – you might ...
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