Author(s): Ken Peak (Editor)

Travel Literature

Agan Kernow is a collection of 76 short stories in a book of 266 pages including photographs, written by 51 authors from four countries of the Cornish Diaspora. We have stories from Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland in Australia. We also have two stories about the Cornish in Tasmania written by authors now living on the Australian mainland. We also have many stories submitted from folk with Cornish heritage in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. Many of these are stories of the celebrated Cousin Jacks and Jennys who came before us, mostly as miners and helped forge our nations. In Australia more than 750,000 people lay claim to Cornish heritage, including our current Prime Minister as well as two others. There are significant numbers of people who also claim Cornish descent in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. In addition, the book has stories about the descendants of the Cousin Jacks and Jennys returning to the homeland to visit Cornwall on holiday.