Snowdon - The Story of a Welsh Mountain

The Story of a Welsh Mountain

Jim Perrin

The story of Snowdon in Jim Perrin's words. The secrets within its fractured rocks and its shy flora, its folk tales echoing an older race and its beliefs, travellers' chronicles, industry, sport and an anthology of literature all contribute towards our understanding of the mountain. New Paperback edition. First published in hardback in 2012.

ISBN: 9781843235750

Price: £14.99

Department: Leisure, Guide Books, Nature and Wildlife, Gwynedd

Format: Paperback

Language: English

No. of pages: 240

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Snowdon is the biography of a mountain, as complex and detailed as that of a human being. This is a book about all aspects of Snowdon: the architecture, history, folklore, mood, light-play, drama, atmospherics, aesthetics, richness of human story, wealth of cultural texture, and character. - Catriona Jackson, Gwales

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'For the whole of my outdoor life I've been under the spell cast by this most beautiful and redolent of British hills.' - Jim Perrin. The life story of the British mainland's finest mountain is an enchantment, parcelled in Jim Perrin's ribboned prose. Possibly no other mountain has more story attached to it than Yr Wyddfa, Snowdon. You can approach it from a surprising number of directions: from the secrets within its fractured rocks, its shy flora, its folk tales echoing an older race and its beliefs. Stone and hut circles, forts and cairns, travellers' chronicles, industry, sport and an anthology of literature - in two languages - work on one's mind, gradually revealing the mountain's essence.

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