Welsh History: Strange but True
Geoff Brookes, "Welsh History: Strange but True"
English | ISBN: 0750983426 | 2017 | 192 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0750983426 | 2017 | 192 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall died in 1761. He kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives on either side of his bed – until his third wife insisted that they were removed.In 1856 Ronald Rhys from the Vale of Neath disappeared for a week after seeing a strange light in a field and hearing a loud noise. He remembered being examined by small creatures who took a sample of his blood.Oh yes, and America is named after a Welshman and the Holy Grail is kept in a bank vault in West Wales…This book contains hundreds of ‘strange but true’ facts and anecdotes about Welsh history. Arranged into a miniature history of Wales, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will interest and delight readers everywhere.