EVENT - NOVEMBER 2024
‘voices on the path: a history of walking in wales’
illustrated launch
Voices on the Path: A History of Walking in Wales is for anyone interested in walking, the social history of Wales (including traditions of pilgrimage, industrial labour, protest, language, tourism and recreation), and the history of literature in both Welsh and English, Andrew Green’s latest book, Voices on the Path: A History of Walking in Wales, will make perfect winter reading.
Not designed as an academic book, but end-notes allow readers to follow up the printed and manuscript sources used, with coloured photographs illustrating the text throughout.
Gwas Carreg Gwalch - £14.99
You are invited to join us for this illustrated talk with author,
Andrew Green
in conversation with
Mike Parker
In this illustrated conversation with writer, walker and map addict, Mike Parker, Andrew Green takes us on a meandering route through the history of walking in Wales. The story begins in the footprints of Mesolithic people in the intertidal mud of the Severn estuary.
Along the way, we are invited to rest and spend time with some of the most interesting walkers, including Gerald of Wales, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Kilvert, George Borrow, Anne Lister, Ursula Martin, Hanna Engelkamp and Delyth Jenkins.
Andrew will also introduce us to other remarkable walkers, many of them little known. Through the eyes of these walkers, we can learn much about how Welsh people lived, and how Wales was seen by people from outside.
All from your seat in the beautiful Y Tabernacl auditorium.
EVENT IN ENGLISH
Launch Event
with Andrew Green
in conversation with
Mike Parker
Venue:
Machynlleth
15 November 2024
Friday, 7.30pm
bar and refreshments available from 7pm
Event Ticket
£5.00
Andrew was brought up in Yorkshire and moved to Wales in the 1970s where he began learning Welsh in the 1980s. He worked as a university librarian in Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Sheffield and Swansea before becoming Librarian of the National Library of Wales in 1998. Since retiring in 2013 he's been an author and long-distance walker. His books include: Wales in 100 objects (2018),
Mike’s books include, All the Wide Border (2023); On the Red Hill (2019); Map Addict (2009)