The Living Wells of Wales: new photographs and old tales of our sacred springs, holy wells and spas - Couverture rigide

Cope, Phil

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781724962 ISBN 13 : 9781781724965

Editeur : Seren, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Author and photographer Phil Cope, takes his camera on a journey through the sacred wells of Wales from the Anglesey to the Gwent. On his way he discovers wells in city centres and, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere on mountainsides, in deserted valleys, on the coast, in sea caves. They include healing wells, cursing wells, and wells named for saints, Satan, witches, angels, fairies, friars, nuns, hermits, murderers and hangmen. His luscious and atmospheric photographs are accompanied by folk tales, myths and legends, conversations with well-keepers and poems inspired by Welsh wells.

Wales has an abundance of wells both in the natural state and domesticated for private or civic use. Published in conjunction with the Keep Wales Tidy Living Wells project, the book is a guide to sites of historic interest important to Welsh identity which have been hidden and neglected in town and countryside, and which now have new life as a result of the project. Packed with colour photographs, including some of long-forgotten wells now rediscovered, The Living Wells of Wales is the new definitive volume on a subject gaining a new popularity.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1781724962
• ISBN 13: 9781781724965
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352