World of Poldark
"[A] magnificent book . . . A glorious celebration of Graham's ever-popular novels, the stunning BBC TV adaptation and breathtaking Cornwall." — Lancashire Post The World of Poldark explores the characters, the compelling stories and the era that Winston Graham's Poldark novels—and the television series—set out to recreate, the England that Ross Poldark returned to from the American War of Independence. England, and especially Cornwall, was then marked by social unrest and a deep division between rich and poor. It was a place of tin mines and shipwrecks, of new money versus old, of harsh justice and great kindness. Amid the turmoil of eighteenth-century Cornwall, Ross comes back to a home in