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The author records an episodic travelogue across rural Wales, combining vivid descriptions of mountains, valleys, and coastlines with close observations of local speech, customs, and antiquities. Encounters with farmers, bards, and villagers are recounted alongside visits to churches, ruins, and market towns, and reflections on folklore, language preservation, and historical struggles punctuate the route. The narrative mixes picturesque scene-setting, humorous anecdote, and linguistic curiosity, producing a lively panorama of landscape, social life, and cultural memory.

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Title: Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery

Author: George Borrow

Release date: September 1, 1996 [eBook #648]
Most recently updated: August 16, 2021

Language: English

Credits: David Price and Jane Gamie

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILD WALES: ITS PEOPLE, LANGUAGE AND SCENERY ***

WILD WALES

ITS PEOPLE, LANGUAGE
AND SCENERY

BY GEORGE BORROW

“Their Lord they shall praise,
Their language they shall keep,
Their land they shall lose,
Except Wild Wales.”

Taliesin: Destiny of the Britons

 

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1907

First Edition

 

1862

Second Edition

 

1865

Third Edition

 

1888

Fourth Edition

 

1896

Fifth (Definitive) Edition

6/-

March, 1901

Reprinted

Thin Paper

July, 1905

Reprinted

6/-

Sept., 1907

Reprinted

2/6 net.

Sept., 1907

NOTE

This edition of Wild Wales has been carefully collated with the first edition, in order to ensure that the spelling of proper names shall be precisely as Borrow left it, and the running headings on the right-hand pages as nearly as possible those which Borrow himself wrote.

January 1901.