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Article: Cornwall or Conwell?
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- March 20, 1999
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Rory Knight Bruce on how the Celtic peninsula 's natives are exploiting visitors to the great eclipse
IF Daphne du Maurier dreamt last night she went to Manderley again, it would have been a nightmare. As Cornwall, that Celtic, misty, stonewalled promontory so loved by King Arthur, John Betjeman and A.L. Rowse, prepares for a two-minute total eclipse of the sun in August, it has been gripped by a bitter commercial fever.
There is the prospect of as many as a million extra visitors, from New Age travellers to school study groups, businessmen in corporate jets and a flotilla of up to 2,000 ships. For Cornwall, one of western Europe's poorer regions, this brings the lure of dark gold to buoy ...