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G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

Best remembered for gathering old tales from the western reaches of Britain, this early 20th-century writer brought regional legend and folklore to a wide audience. His work mixes a storyteller’s love of myth with the curiosity of someone deeply interested in engineering and the modern world.

4 Audiobooks

Legend Land, Vol. 2 Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

Legend Land, Vol. 2 Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

by G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

Legend Land, Vol. 3 Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

Legend Land, Vol. 3 Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

by G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

by G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

Legend Land, Vol. 4 Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Nearer Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

Legend Land, Vol. 4 Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Nearer Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

by G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

About the author

George Basil Barham, also recorded as George Basil Joseph Barham, was an English writer active in the early 1900s. Surviving reference sources link him both to technical writing and to folklore, showing an unusually wide range of interests.

He is best known as the author of Legend Land, a multi-volume collection of traditional stories from the western parts of Britain, especially places connected with the Great Western Railway. His books helped preserve and popularize regional legends for general readers, giving old local tales a lively, accessible form.

Other records describe him as a consulting engineer and list technical works such as The Development of the Incandescent Electric Lamp, suggesting that his career moved between industry, travel writing, and popular retellings of history and myth. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I checked, so none is included here.