Author: John Vivian
Title: Tales of the Cornish Miners
Description: Cornwall, Tor Mark, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Cornwall: Tor Mark, 1970. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo . Trade Paperback Good condition inside, two rubs on back cover where the blue color is rubbed. Small crease on edge of rear cover. No writing NOT a library book. Pages free of writing or underlines. The book says Romans brought Jews of Judea (Before the Romans called it Palestine) who rebelled against them in the First Century as slaves to work in the Cornish tin mines and also as Tin traders. The Jewish place names in Cornish superstition are folk memories of Jewish tin traders like Joseph of Arimathea coming to Britain. Interesting little 40pp. book from Cornwall. B/W illus. Photos. Great photos of miners too. See Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans Covers and Table of Contents. Good .

Keywords: coal miners tin trade joseph of arimathea cornish tin mines cornish photos cornish tin history judea jews cornwall kernow piskies mining danger jewish cornwall Hebrew Mysticism and Folklore Cornish/Brittany/Isle Of Man Celtic Christianity


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