Wilder Wales (eBook)

"e;Even Hannibal himself wou'd have found it impossible to have match'd his army over Snowden"e;Daniel de Foe, A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain... 1924"e;It would be the height of ingratitude to find fault with any thing, where kindness and humanity were so predominant."e;Mary Morgan, A tour to Milford Haven, in the year 1791. "e;At Holly well they speake Welsh; the inhabitants go barefoote and bare leg'd - a nasty sort of people. Their meate is very small here, Mutton is noe bigger than Little Lamb, what of it there is was sweete; their wine good being Neare ye Sea side, and are well provided with ffish - very good Salmon and Eeles and other ffish I had at Harding."e;Celia Fiennes, Through England on a Side Saddle, 1698David Lloyd Owen introduces us to the fascinating breadth of travellers' tales from a mysterious and absorbing country: writers who described a land of mountains and valleys, ruined castles, and abandoned monasteries, and give us tales of strange locals who spoke another language and were known as the Welsh. A Wilder Wales highlights the astonishing transformation of Wales from a poor rural backwater to the crucible of the industrial revolution and offers readers an insight into the ways in which outsiders viewed the land and its people.