Ernest Victor Thompson
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 944
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BEN RETALLICK - In the tine mines of Cornwall during the first decades of the 19th Century, death is the constant companion of the working man. Ben retallick has grown up among the miners and fisherfolk, through the hard and hungry years when blood was often the price of bread. But when cruel fate steals away Jessie, his dark-eyed love, Ben searches the hiring fairs to find her again, caring only for the day when he'll maker his wife.... CHASE THE WIND - Josh retallick, son of a respected Cornish family, and the wild Miriam, daughter of a drink-sodden copper miner, explore together the secret places of Bodmin Moor, unaware that fate will soon sweep them apart. Yet destiny brings them together again and again through hard and bitter years when the forces of property and power fight to crush the sturdy ining folk who refuse, come what may, to see their spirit broken....