Gower - Couverture rigide

Jenkins, Nigel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848510527 ISBN 13 : 9781848510524

Editeur : Gomer Press, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Two of Wales's leading artists - poet and prose writer Nigel Jenkins and photographer David Pearl - join forces to produce a unique portrait in word and image of the Gower peninsula, designated Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Nigel Jenkins's nuanced series of essays begins and ends with an excavation of his own roots in this layered land. Commemorating an age-old agricultural tradition that tied generations to the soil, he also explores the social and cultural forces that changed life on the peninsula for ever. Jenkins adopts the long perspectives that reveal Gower's 'deep history', from the 30,000-year-old bones of 'The Red Lady' of Paviland and medieval castles to the area's more recent but largely forgotten industrial history and the lifeblood of present-day tourism. Against the background of an ever-changing landscape, the book presents compelling Gower characters such as the Romany Mrs Hearn and the traction-engine maestro Willy Harry. Prose and poetry combine in celebratory dialogue with stunning original photography in this deeply informed portrait of an eternally fascinating corner of Wales.

Biographie de l'auteur

Nigel Jenkins was born in Gower in 1949 and is a well respected poet, editor, journalist, broadcaster and writer of creative non-fiction. He won the Arts Council of Wales 1996 Book of the Year prize with his travel book Gwalia in Khasia (1995), and has published many volumes of poetry and prose. He currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Swansea. He was also joint editor of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gomer Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848510527
• ISBN 13: 9781848510524
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Pearl David
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible