This is the fascinating story of an extraordinary, yet ordinary man An illiterate labourer, almost totally blinded in his thirties, Edward Prynn provides a record of Cornish village life from the late 1930s to the early manhood He tells of the painful and comic experience of having his hair cut with sheep shears, sneaking off school to beachcomb for treasure and of his first love and his misery when he emigrated to Australia Edward Prynn's charming collection of reminiscences never ceases to delight and amuse