Firbank, Thomas

I Bought a Mountain [Wales]

Guildford, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. The wrap-around illustrated dust jacket with the price of $2.75 has age-faded with corner wear. 8.75 inches tall; [5], 319 [1] pages

A groundbreaking nature writing classic penned on the eve of World War II, Firbank's engrossing account of how he and his wife transformed a farm in the mountains of Snowdonia has had an enduring legacy on the tropes of the genre. [Publisher]

Thomas Firbank was born in 1910 in Quebec to an English father and a Welsh mother. Following his father's early death he was raised among his mother's hill-farming community in the Berwyn Mountains of north Wales. I Bought a Mountain describes how, aged only 21, he bought Dyffryn Mymbyr, a 972 head sheep farm in Capel Curig, North Wales, in 1931. [Good Reads]

Item #19065

Price: $45.00