Exploration & Journeys
Scilly and its Legends
Henry John Whitfield
2026
5h 56m$1.99
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Twenty eight miles past Land's End, and the islands keep their own stories. Whitfield collected the Scilly legends and history in the 1850s: the drowned land of Lyonesse, the wrecks and the wreckers, the saints, the smugglers, the garrison, and the fishing families holding on to rocks in the Atlantic. Folklore and topography together, from an era that never thought to separate them.
Inside this audiobook
23 chapters
- 1Dedication and Preface2m
- 2Introductory Chapter8m
- 3Voyage from Penzance to Scilly10m
- 4Legend: Lethowsow, or Lyonesse21m
- 5St Mary's19m
- 6Tollman Head : A Legend of Old Town17m
- 7St Mary's No.214m
- 8St Mary's No.39m
- 9Legend of Holy Vale22m
- 10Bryher13m
- 11Tresco8m
- 12Legend : The Knight and the Dwarf39m
- 13Menawavr, and the Eastern Isles7m
- 14Tresco No.25m
- 15A Legend of Piper's-Hole23m
- 16Tresco No.35m
- 17Legend: The Dane's Grave21m
- 18St Martin's13m
- 19A Cruise Round the Western Isles11m
- 20St Agnes16m
- 21The Legend of St Warna16m
- 22Popular Superstitions17m
- 23Appendix40m
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