Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Hay - Landscape, Literature and the Town of Books
Hay - Landscape, Literature and the Town of Books
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Mae tref Gelli Gandryll yn enwog am ei siopau llyfrau, gŵyl lenyddiaeth y Gelli ynghyd â golygfeydd syfrdanol y fro, ac mae cyfrol Jim Saunders yn cwmpasu'r tair elfen mewn ffotograffau hardd a thestun llawn gwybodaeth.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Hay-on-Wye is famous for bookshops, the Hay literature festival and its stunning location. Saunders' book encapsulates them in photographs and informative text on the area and authors like Bruce Chatwin, Francis Kilvert, and Alfred Watkins.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781721780
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781721780
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Hay - Landscape, Literature and the Town of Books
- Awdur / Author
- Saunders, Jim
- Current Price ex VAT
- £19.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £19.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2014-05-22
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 160 pages
- Size
- 240 × 220 mm; depth 19 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Taith, Twristiaeth, Teithlyfrau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Travel, Tourism, Guide Books (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Arweinlyfrau - Cymru (yn Saesneg) | EN: Guide Books - Wales (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Jim Saunders is a writer and photographer based in Knighton, Powys. He is the author of Offa’s Dyke (Gomer/BBC Wales, 2006), and is a former Offa’s Dyke Path Officer. Jim’s nature photographs also illustrate Natur y flwyddyn, by Bethan Wyn Jones and he regularly lectures about his photography, which has been widely published in books and magazines such as Heritage, British Archaeology and Professional Photographer. His clients including Natural England, the Ordnance Survey, Penguin Books and the BBC in addition to national and regional newspapers. His website is www.jimsaunders.co.uk
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The ancient border town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for three things: bookshops, the annual Festival of Literature and its stunning location. Jim Saunders’ new book is a portrait of Hay, its setting and its people in words and photographs. Atmospheric and insightful images are interspersed with an informative exploration of the town’s history and the stories and characters associated with it – among them Francis Kilvert, Alfred Watkins, Hay poisoner Herbert Armstrong, the Baskerville/Conan Doyle connection, Bruce Chatwin, Eric Gill, Owain Glyndŵr, Richard Booth, and the Hay Festival. The book also includes brief vignettes about ordinary ‘Hay people’ – a Radnorshire farmer, Paralympian Josie Pearson, a mysterious German PoW, the local carpenter, and businesswoman Joyce Gervis among them. The result is a record of the relationship in which a landscape of great beauty shapes a people, and a people shape a unique place. Jim’s book is peppered with glorious images of the town and the surrounding countryside, and telling portraits of inhabitants and visitors. It is as special as the place and people it portrays.
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