Wild Wales: Its People, Language, And Scenery
London: J.M.Dent & Sons, 1958. Everyman's Library No. 49.
Publisher's cloth The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The dust jack has modest and even age-toning with a tape repair on the top of the spine. 7.25 inches tall; 617 pages with an introduction by David Jones.
This book recounts Borrow's personal experiences and insights while touring Wales alone on foot after a family holiday in Llangollen in 1854, and has come to be regarded as a source of useful information about the social and geographical history of the country at that time.
It has been described as "robust, dramatic and cheerful", and the author as "an agreeably eccentric, larger-than-life, jovial man whose laughter rings all through the book".
Borrow trained as a lawyer but soon took to literature and wrote novels and travel books, drawing on his many journeys around Britain and Europe. Borrow was a noted linguist; he spoke Welsh and had a particular interest in the origins of place-names.
Item #16810
Price: $24.00
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