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Rough Guide Wales  •  Mike Parker  •  Paul Whitfield
GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 599 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to Wales in the British series, nicely balanced between practical travel details and an overview of the history and culture. With suggested walks, sketch maps accommodations and practicalities. (GBR140, $19.99)
  Rough Guide Wales
A Writer's House in Wales  •  Jan Morris
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  HARD COVER  • 192 PAGES
Historian and travel writer Jan Morris searches a little closer to home in this debut volume in the "Directions" series by National Geographic. Morris's revelations on the history and structure of her 18th-century house in northwest Wales lead her to contemplations of Welsh identity. (GBR325, $20.00)
  A Writer's House in Wales
North & Mid Wales Map  •   Ordnance Survey
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A regional touring map of Wales covering the northern half of the country at a scale of 1:175,000. (GBR682, $12.95)
 
 

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Snowdonia North Walker's Map  •   Harvey Maps    •  A detailed, hiker's map of the northern half of Snowdonia. (GBR413, $12.95)
 
 
Snowdonia South Walker's Map  •   Harvey Maps    •  A detailed, hiker's map of the southern half of Snowdonia. (GBR412, $12.95)
 
 
The Hidden Places of Wales  •  James Gracie   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A detailed, comprehensive guide to Wales, covering locations of interest, accommodations, dining and specialist shops. Redesigned for this fourth edition. (GBR677, $36.95)
 
 
Modern Wales, A Concise History  •  Gareth Elwyn Jones   • HISTORY  •  A scholarly, informative survey of the recent history of Wales. This highly regarded book covers the economical, political and educational factors that have shaped present day Wales. (GBR133, $32.99)
 
 
The Last of the Celts  •  Marcus Tanner   • HISTORY  •  Welsh journalist Tanner mixes anecdote, interview and research in this lively account of encounters with far-flung Celts from Scotland, Wales and Belfast to Brittany, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Trelew. (GBR527, $22.00)
 
 
Wales and Wars of Roses  •  H. T. T. Evans  •  Ralph A. Griffiths   • HISTORY  •  An account of the wars and how they affected Wales. (GBR129, $19.95)
 
 
Art of the Celts  •  Lloyd Robert Laing  •  Jennifer Laing   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series, this is a broad introduction to Celtic art, from the 5th century B.C. to 1200 A.D. (CLT02, $14.95)
 
 
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $12.95)
 
 
Running for the Hills, Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales  •  Horatio Clare   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vivid and stirring memoir chronicling the harsh but enchanting life of a young Welsh lad on his mother's remote mountain sheep farm. (GBR609, $15.00)
 
 
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury  •  Edith Pargeter   • LITERATURE  •  A historical novel full of medieval battles and disputes over feudal succession. (GBR169, $13.50)
 
 
How Green Was My Valley  •  Richard Llewellyn   • LITERATURE  •  This best-selling and beloved story, full of humor and pathos, paints an indelible portrait of Wales and the Welsh. It is a reminiscence of youth at a time when south Wales prospered, before the dust of coal blackened the valley. (GBR69, $17.00)
 
 
On the Black Hill  •  Bruce Chatwin   • LITERATURE • OUT OF PRINT  •  Renowned writer and traveler Chatwin tells the story of identical twins on a Welsh borderland farm and the effects of a modernizing world that surrounds them. (GBR131, $14.00)
 
 
The Mabinogion  •  Jeffrey Gantz   • LITERATURE  •  These eleven Welsh stories, beautiful in their strangeness, combine fact with fantasy, myth with history and folklore, into one of the great Welsh epics, the only Welsh collection that survived. (GBR67, $12.00)
 
 
Under Milk Wood  •  Dylan Thomas   • LITERATURE  •  Originally written as a radio play for the BBC, this short work (Dylan's last) concerns the events on a single spring day in a small coastal village in Wales. It's a lyrical, outrageous celebration of life in the mythical town of Llareggub (bugger all backwards), populated by all manner of madmen and eccentrics. (GBR244, $11.95)
 
 
Birds of Europe  •  Killian Mullarney  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Peter J. Grant   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent. (FG47, $29.95)
 
 


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