DEVON AND CORNWALLS ODDEST HISTORICAL TALES

True tales of the West Country's most fascinating people, places and happenings, including Catherine of Aragon on a mule, Lady Nelson on a second honeymoon, and John Betjeman waxing poetical about his favourite seaside town. Discover French prisoners on Dartmoor, Jane Austen taking the plunge at Lyme, the unsolved mystery of the Devil’s footprints at Dawlish and the astonishing account of the lion’s attack on the Exeter coach - each tale has been chosen to amuse, intrigue, shock and mystify.