Isles of Scilly Folk Tales

Scilly has been its own unique land for centuries, separate from England and cut off from Cornwall by twenty-five miles of rough sea - yet until now its folk tales have been poorly documented. Let Anthony the droll-teller and his companions guide you on this voyage around the wonderful Isles of Scilly: a place of smugglers and shipwrecks, pirates and privateers, legends and long lost tales.

Auteur

MIKE O'CONNOR is a respected professional musician and storyteller who performs at folk, literary and storytelling festivals across the country. An adviser on the musical score and fiddle player for the BBC's series of Poldark, Mike has been awarded the OBE and is a bard of the Gorsedh of Kernow, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall through literature, art, music and history. He is the author of Cornish Folk Tales and Cornish Folk Tales for Children, and has also produced many storytelling CDs. He lives in Wadebridge, Cornwall.

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Sail away to a land of shipwrecks and smugglers, priests and press-gang, kings and Vikings! Scilly has been its own unique land for centuries, apart from England, even apart from Cornwall, yet its folk tales have been poorly documented. This long-awaited volume brings the wonderful landscape of Scilly to life and is the ideal companion for both visitors to the islands and residents. Take this volume in your pocket and as you travel the islands by boat or on foot and you can relive every tale in the book.