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Häftad, Engelska, 2024
176 kr
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Cornwallʼs landscape is intertwined with the countyʼs folklore and legends. In Illustrated Tales of Cornwall, author John Husband explores a multitude of mysterious happenings, haunted places and strange tales from ancient times to the modern day. This book looks at the legends surrounding Cornish piskies, stone circles and tors, and the court of King Arthur. Tales of the sea abound, including shipwrecks, mermaids and the Morgawr sea monster, as do stories of the Cornish saints and holy wells. Some historical crimes have entered folklore, such as the Nevell Norway murder, and the book is peopled with unusual and eccentric characters, as well as ghosts.These strange and spooky stories are accompanied by the authorʼs photographs of places featured in the text in this hugely entertaining book.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
176 kr
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Devon’s landscape and history is steeped in its folklore and legends. In Illustrated Tales of Devon, author John Husband explores a multitude of mysterious happenings and strange tales from ancient times to the modern day. The book looks at the legends surrounding Dartmoor’s pixies, sightings of the Devil, hairy hands menacing drivers, the true Uncle Tom Cobley at Widecombe Fair, a murderous monk and a postman poet, one of the first air accidents, an inn designed as a pack of cards built by a gambler and a housing estate and pleasure gardens built on the proceeds of a cough syrup… and much more. These strange and remarkable stories are accompanied by the author’s photographs of places featured in the text in this hugely entertaining book.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
176 kr
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Cornwall has long been distinct from the rest of England in history, culture and geography. In Unexpected Cornwall, author John Husband delves into the lesser known history of the county to reveal a wealth of unusual and unexpected stories. The landscape itself contains the most radioactive rocks in Britain, including a uranium mine, whilst its mild climate means that Cornwall is the only part of Britain which grows tea commercially. On Cornwall’s coast, a hut in Newlyn contains the marker for sea-level which determines the height of every natural feature in the country. In the 1950s and 1960s Cornwall had its own Formula 1 motor racing circuit at Davidstow, and did you know that the famous book Wind in the Willows was based on letters written by the author Kenneth Graham to his son while staying in hotels in Falmouth and Fowey? Until 1744, couples could marry at the Knights Templar church at Temple, Bodmin, without a licence or banns being read.All these and many more stories are revealed in Unexpected Cornwall. The book will be of interest to all those who live in Cornwall or know it well.