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Q’s Historical Legacy - XIV - Scilly

Q’s Historical Legacy - XIV - Scilly

Q’s Historical Legacy - XIV - Scilly

N. P. Cooper / NPCooper

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2019
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9780244815912
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Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter’s best friend, Daphne du Maurier,Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (’Q’) was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of histales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory.Scilly are an enchanted series of 5 inhabited and 140 uninhabited islandsThis volume contains two romantic and absolutely enchanting tales about the Isles of Scilly:-- The rescue of an infant from a shipwreck and events in his early life as he grows to adulthood (Tom Tiddler?s Ground).- The influence of the Lord Proprietor and the Commandant of the military defences (Major Vigoreux) and the unexpected appearance, following the grounding of a trans - Atlantic steamship, of a mysterious, beautiful woman who changes peoples? lives for ever.

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