Wilder Wales

Travellers’ Tales 1610-1831

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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A Wilder Wales highlights the astonishing transformation ofWales from a poor rural backwater to the crucible of the industrialrevolution and offers readers an insight into the ways in whichoutsiders viewed the land and its people.A fine gift book for discerning travellers and tourists wanting to takewords from Wales home.“Even Hannibal himself wou’d have found it impossible to havemarch’d his army over Snowden”Daniel de Foe, A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain... 1724

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-06-01
Mått138 x 215 x 52 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor450
FörlagParthian Books
ISBN9781913640781

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David Lloyd Owen was educated at Liverpool and Oxford. His family isfrom Llangrannog. He is a writer and water consultant, advising governments, multilateral institutions, companies, and banks about water policy, especially regarding finance and sustainability. Henow lives in Wales on the side of a hill above the Teifi at Newcastle Emlyn with his wife, Polly. As well as collecting books on Wales and South & Central Asia, he dabbles in rural life, writing, epicure and local politics, serving as Mayor of Cardigan in 2003-04.