In The Living Stones the British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun travels around Cornwall In search of an artist's studio and sanctuary from the modern world. Her sensitive observations of venerated landscapes, flora and fauna, ancient megaliths, village festivals and ritual paint a beguiling portrait of a land built on layers of myth and legend. In her highly original travelogue Colquhoun casts an esoteric and intuitive eye over the Cornish countryside enabling readers to perceive its mysterious, numinous beauty. The Illustrated Travelogues, Reprinted for the first time since the 1950s, and with a new foreword by writer and comedian Stewart Lee, Ithell Colquhoun's illustrated travelogues of Ireland and Cornwall should be essential reading for lovers of travel literature. Her meditations on place and time in these two volumes, inspired by landscape, will appeal to those curious about history, mythology, language and culture. Book jacket.