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Beautiful Wales

Edward Thomas

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

Beautiful Wales by Edward Thomas is about the lovely sights and sounds throughout the country of Wales in the United Kingdom. Excerpt: "Among friends and acquaintances and authors, I have met many men who have seen and read more of Wales than I can ever do. But I am somewhat less fearful in writing about the country, since few of them seem to know the things which I know, and fewer still in the same way. When I read their books or hear them speak, I am interested, pleased, and amazed, but seldom am I quite sure that we mean the same thing by Wales; sometimes I am sure that we do not. One man writes of the country as the home of legends, whose irresponsibility puzzles him, whose naïveté shocks him."
Available since: 12/12/2019.
Print length: 4557 pages.

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