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Legends of Westmorland and the Lake District (1868)
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 2009-04
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781104249250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Tales and Legends from the Lake District
Author: Eye Flight Films Ltd
Publisher: Blurb
Published: 2017-10-08
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781367264205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the fascinating tales and legends from England's largest National Park - The Lake District. A region bursting with daredevils, poets and authors, with astounding scenery and curious history. A land filled with knights, eagles and wolves, with kings around every corner and bitter controversy at every turn. Learn the true stories hiding behind best loved locations, discover secret hidden gems and the world-famous legends born here. Which famous Lake District author was also a genuine spy? Have you driven right past the real King Arthur without noticing? Which lake hides lost villages beneath the waves, and which has needed at least two exorcisms to get rid of ghouls? This region has altered the course of history but harbours darker stories the authorities would rather you didn't know. Discover the hidden Lake District for yourself.
Tales and Legends of the English Lakes and Mountains
Tales and Legends of the English Lakes (Classic Reprint)
Author: Wilson Armistead
Publisher:
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781332731381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Tales and Legends of the English Lakes NO part of the world possesses so many charms for the contemplative mind as the admirable scenery of our English Lake District. None can furnish so wide a field for the excursions of a playful imagination, as those peaceful glens which are formed by the fantastic sweeps of our northern mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Folk Stories from the Lake District
Author: Peter Norman Walker
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780709050933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cumbrian Folk Tales
Author: Taffy Thomas
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 0752478516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique collection of folk tales from Cumbria were collected as fragments that the author has had to breathe life back into. From the lore of the land to ghost stories, fairy stories, tales of the ‘oak men’, and the true historical tales that inspired many of the famous and haunting legends of Cumbria’s wild landscape, no chair by the fireside is complete without it. These tales will make you want to visit the places where they happened and meet some of the characters who told them to the author.Taffy Thomas, MBE, is the first laureate for storytelling. He lives in Grasmere.
Legends of Westmorland and the Lake District
English Fairy Tales and Legends
Author: Rosalind Kerven
Publisher: Batsford Books
Published: 2019-12-13
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1849946205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →12 classic English fairy tales and their history, from tales of dragons to Robin Hood. Folk tales and legends are an intrinsic part of English national culture. In his book, Rosalind Kerven has revived the best English fairy tales for a new generation. These are stories of giants, dragons, fairies and Arthurian Romance. Together, they form a perfect introduction to the different types of traditional stories and their place in English oral and written heritage. Each tale is linked with a specific place or county in England: 'The Dragon Castle' from Northumberland, 'The Girl Snatched By Fairies' from County Durham, 'The Princess and the Fool' from Kent and 'The Dark Moon' from Lincolnshire. The book also includes notes on each story: the history and where it came from, its development and short summaries of many related or similar stories.
Haunted England
Author: Jennifer Westwood
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0141959533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...
