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Place Myth and Story | Martin Shaw (Bardskull)

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Hamer Broadbent and the Wolf of Atlantis

There's a figure in the book that started to arrive after about two months into this who is my genuine, great, great uncle. Hamer Broadbent was a Plymouth Brethren missionary who in the early 1900s found his way to extraordinary places like Siberia and Transylvania and the Baltics. He spent all his time trying to protect local people from what he called priestcraft - corrupted versions of Christianity. So there's a kind of strange interaction going on between very local Devonian stories and stories from the very edge of the world. The final bit, I quite liked where Wolf went in one particular place in the book, like changing the name of Dogaland to Wolfaland

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