• Category:
  History,
  social studies
• Publication date:
  April 2005
• RRP: £12.99
  US $24.99
  A$29.95
  C$29.95
• Sewn sections,
  four colour cover
  466 pages
• Black and white
  maps
• 228mm x 152mm
  (9 ins by 6 ins)
• ISBN
  1-904880-04-5

The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic. Philip Payton is one of the world’s leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people over time, both within the United Kingdom and to the major mining and agricultural districts of the world. The accessible narrative covers the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, continental South America, Mexico, Cuba and other parts of the world. The Cornish Overseas was first published in a limited hardcover edition in 1998 and is now out of print. This new high-quality paperback edition, revised and updated following new research over the last six years, will make this important work available once more. The beautifully produced book is illustrated with newly commissioned line drawings.

Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter in Cornwall, where he is Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies. The author/editor of some thirty books, both academic and popular, he has written widely on Cornish subjects. He edits Cornish Studies, a series of academic papers which has established the Institute as an energetic centre of social, political and historical study. Philip Payton is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Formerly a serving naval officer, he holds the rank of Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. He lives with his wife in Bodmin