{"product_id":"wild-wales-george-borrow-collins-souvenir-edition-1964-reprint","title":"Wild Wales - George Borrow, Collins Souvenir Edition, 1964 Reprint","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn 1854, George Borrow set out to walk Wales. Not to visit it, or pass through it, but to know it - its mountains and rivers, its people and its ancient language. What he wrote about that journey has never gone out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis is the Collins Souvenir Edition, first published in this form in 1955 and reprinted in 1964. It contains over a hundred photographs taken along the actual routes Borrow walked, each captioned with a line from the text. The blue cloth boards are clean and solid. The dustjacket is present and worn - torn at the corners and spine, as you would expect from a book that has been read and handled and given as a gift. Someone inscribed their name on the endpaper. Someone gave it at Christmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIt is a book about paying close attention to a place. It still is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003eTitle: Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery Author: George Borrow Publisher: Collins, London and Glasgow Edition: Collins Souvenir Edition, first published 1955, this reprint 1964 Introduction by Cecil Price Dimensions: approx. 11.5 × 18.5 × 2.5 cm Condition: Good vintage condition. Blue cloth boards clean and firm. Dustjacket present but worn — tears to corners and spine edges. Previous owner's name inscribed to endpaper. Interior pages clean. Over 100 photographs intact throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE STORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBorrow walked into Wales in the summer of 1854 with his wife and stepdaughter, a working knowledge of Welsh, and an extraordinary eye for the particular. He noticed everything - the colour of a river, the cadence of a stranger's speech, the way a hill held the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWild Wales is the record of that attention. It is not a guidebook and it is not quite a memoir. It is something rarer: a portrait of a place made by someone who understood that to truly see somewhere, you have to be willing to go slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis copy has been read. It has been given as a gift. Someone's name is written inside in ink that has faded slightly with the years. These are not flaws. They are the marks of a book that has done what books are for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome things are worth preserving.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoss \u0026amp; Maye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moss \u0026 Maye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57509784781182,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0995\/3830\/5406\/files\/81E98486-F37B-43B9-9DCF-09DE563D231F.jpg?v=1780582583","url":"https:\/\/mossandmaye.com\/products\/wild-wales-george-borrow-collins-souvenir-edition-1964-reprint","provider":"Moss \u0026 Maye","version":"1.0","type":"link"}