Wales

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  • Author: Jan Morris
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Catalogue: 88025
  • Size: 13x20cm
Wales by Jan Morris is a sweeping celebration of the country, telling the nation’s story from prehistoric times and showing a people never overrun by any of the heathen successors to the Romans. It narrates how Wales came to see itself as the inheritor of Roman urbanity, early Christian devotees and the glories of a lost Celtic civilisation.

The book has been substantially revised in light of the birth of the new Welsh Assembly which has re-ignited many of Owain’s ancient hopes. Passionate, witty, full of rich historical detail and vivid vignettes of life today, Jan Morris’s Wales has been described as a definitive evocation of every aspect of Welshness.

Half-Welsh, half-English, veteran travel writer Jan Morris has journeyed to every corner of the globe, yet it is the damp, demanding and obsessively interesting country of Wales which remains her first true love.