Snapshots Of Welsh History
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| Author | : Phil Carradice |
| Publisher | : Headline Accent |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2011-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1908192445 |
A fascinating collection of stories from Welsh history collected from Phil Carradice's popular BBC Wales blog, gathered together for the first time in a book. Among the incredible stories are... The man from Clydach who invented a Death Ray The Welsh aristocrat whose parrot once bit Herman Goering on the nose The witch who cursed the launch of a warship at Pembroke Dockyard The battle that was won by a herd of cows These stories are part and parcel of Welsh heritage and make history interesting. Snapshots of Welsh History - Without the Boring Bits covers a wide range of Welsh history topics. Written in Phil's unique easy-to-read yet elegant style, these stories are funny, tragic, sad and hilarious. Yet the one thing they all have in common is that they make compelling reading.
| Author | : Phil Carradice |
| Publisher | : Accent Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2011-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1908192445 |
A fascinating collection of stories from Welsh history collected from Phil Carradice's popular BBC Wales blog, gathered together for the first time in a book. Among the incredible stories are... The man from Clydach who invented a Death Ray The Welsh aristocrat whose parrot once bit Herman Goering on the nose The witch who cursed the launch of a warship at Pembroke Dockyard The battle that was won by a herd of cows These stories are part and parcel of Welsh heritage and make history interesting. Snapshots of Welsh History - Without the Boring Bits covers a wide range of Welsh history topics. Written in Phil's unique easy-to-read yet elegant style, these stories are funny, tragic, sad and hilarious. Yet the one thing they all have in common is that they make compelling reading.
| Author | : Geoff Brookes |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2014-04-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0750954981 |
Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall died in 1761. He kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives on either side of his bed – until his third wife insisted that they were removed. In 1856 Ronald Rhys from the Vale of Neath disappeared for a week after seeing a strange light in a field and hearing a loud noise. He remembered being examined by small creatures who took a sample of his blood. Oh yes, and America is named after a Welshman and the Holy Grail is kept in a bank vault in West Wales... This book contains hundreds of 'strange but true' facts and anecdotes about Welsh history. Arranged into a miniature history of Wales, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will interest and delight readers everywhere.
| Author | : Rough Guides |
| Publisher | : Rough Guides UK |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2014-05-15 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0241008247 |
The Rough Guide Snapshot to New South Wales and the ACT is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the Snowy Mountains to Byron Bay and the Bellinger Valley to Canberra. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you make the most of your trip, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from The Rough Guide to Australia, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around the country, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, sports and outdoor activities and festivals. Also published as part of The Rough Guide to Australia. Now available in ePub format.
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| Publisher | : Rough Guides UK |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2012-03-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1409360806 |
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Coastal New South Wales and the ACT is the ultimate travel guide to this varied part of Australia. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, whether you're exploring historic Canberra or kicking back in stylish Byron Bay, skiing in the Snowy Mountains or wildlife-spotting on Lord Howe Island. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Australia, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Australia, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, entry requirements and outdoor activities. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Australia. Full coverage: the ACT, Canberra, the south coast, the Snowy Mountains, Myall Lakes National Park, Barrington Tops, Port Macquarie, the Bellinger Region, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Ballina, Byron Bay, and Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. (Equivalent printed page extent 112 pages).
| Author | : M. Wynn Thomas |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2021-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1786837684 |
Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives a sense of the view seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects of the Welsh past into focus. Together, they give the flavour of a poetic tradition, both ancient and modern, in the Welsh language and in English, that is internationally renowned for its distinction and continuing vibrancy.
| Author | : Geraint Evans |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 857 |
| Release | : 2019-04-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107106761 |
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
| Author | : Phil Carradice |
| Publisher | : Headline Accent |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 2014-01-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1783755423 |
It's November 1953 and Dylan Thomas, Britain's finest poet, is dying in a hospital bed in New York. What brought him to this end is not clear. But he is a man tormented by fear - fear of failing as a writer, fear of a marriage doomed to end in disaster, even fear of death itself - all of which have led him to find comfort in alcohol, outrageous behaviour and the arms of other women. Now, as Dylan lies waiting for the end, he thinks back over his life, from his childhood in Swansea to his days as a wild young poet in London, from his tempestuous marriage to Caitlin MacNamara to his final weeks in New York. Dylan Thomas may not have wanted to die but he had little desire to live. An interesting and attractive figure, who was doomed. Do Not Go Gentle paints a picture of a man who has clearly reached the end of his tether.
| Author | : Geraldine Lublin |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2017-05-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1783169699 |
This literary investigation of identity construction in twentieth-century Welsh Patagonia breaks new ground by looking at the Welsh community in Chubut not as a quaint anomaly, but in its context as an integral part of Argentina. Its focus is on historicising and problematising the adoption of the so-called ‘Welsh feat’ as foundational narrative for Chubut and its settler colonial implications in the larger settler colonial formation that is Argentina, where indigenous re-emergence seems to be leading the way towards real pluralism. Exploring the understudied period immediately preceding the celebrated turn-of-the-century revitalisation, Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia presents four memoirs written in Welsh and Spanish by Welsh Patagonian descendants, read against the grain to foreground the tensions, dissonances and ambivalences emerging from the individual narratives. The study then probes the romanticised stereotype of the Welsh descendant so prevalent in media representations, in order to describe a broader, richer panorama of what it means to be a Welsh descendant in Patagonia in a modern Argentine context.
| Author | : Mike Parker |
| Publisher | : Rough Guides |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781843531203 |
This guide covers everything, from Wales' pumping nightlife and rural cosmopolitanism to its crags and castles. Critical reviews are given on accommodation and restaurants suiting all pockets, from budget to luxury. There are detailed descriptions of numerous walks, from gentle lakeside strolls to serious mountain scrambles, and water sports, including surfing and the locally pioneered sport of coasteering.
